“…Consequently, parents may be counseled to delay therapy to allow time for natural remission. Recovery rates decline, however, to 50%-60% by the time a child reaches age 5 years (Walsh et al, 2018(Walsh et al, , 2020Yairi & Ambrose, 2005). Delaying therapy for children at greater risk for persisting allows atypical neural speech motor networks to form (Chang & Zhu, 2013;Garnett et al, 2018;Hosseini et al, 2018;Walsh et al, 2017), resulting in a challenging speech disorder to treat.…”