Speech Apraxia?

Brendan is really doing well with therapy--- his attention span has increased dramatically and the therapists who were a month ago concerned about his lack of eye contact now say he makes constant eye contact. Now they no longer see him on the autism spectrum but are rather thinking that maybe he has speech apraxia.... but they say its really hard to tell. So I guess its a waiting game until he's a little older. For now, I research both and do what we can... He's done well with sign language and now we're introducing PECS... Did really well with it at this weeks therapy session, so next week the therapist will take pictures of all the things around our house to make us our own cards. Brendan showed an increase in aversion to the sensory activities that the OT brought this week... They are getting him a weighted vest to see if that helps, but since he has a fear of things on his back, I think he will hate this! I think the swing was a much better idea, but we'll see. Those are my ramblings for now.

Confusion...

I"m massively confused... We were referred to a diagnostic pediatrician for an evaluation of our son, who is 2 and stopped speaking. He slowly started losing words until at the age of 2, he now says mom and only on occasion and does a few animal sounds. After a thorough review of his medical, physical and all other history of his short life and spending less than a hour "playing" with him.... he was diagnosed as mildly to moderately autistic. We now have 3 therapists coming each week to see him, and one therapist tells me every time she comes how she just doesn't really think he's autistic and how she hates for him to have this label.... So who do I believe? .... There has to be some reason why he suddenly stopped talking and still isn't saying a single word.. right? I'm so confused... So i guess for now we just continue with our therapy and see where it takes us...