For those who wonder what the connection between butterfly eggs and childhood #speech disorders may be, the authors are arguing against the classifications currently used by most clinicians*. They claim some diagnostic categories do not reflect actual differences between disorders believed to be distinct in nature (i.e., they would emerge due to different underlying mechanisms), but rather different phases of the same developmental trajectory.

*at least in the US and English-speaking world

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