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[angela]

Hi, I have a daughter who has ADHD -diagnosised at 3, but more recently at the age of 8 as been diagnosised with Auditory Intergration Disorder and Language Impairment. Does anyone have information on this or words of wisdom- very confused and need some help!!!

[katiekat]

Hi Angela! Glad you found us. I have a 7 year old son who is DX with ADHD and just recently he was given a "possible" DX of Aspergers. I am not familiar with Auditory Integration Disorder-but hopefully someone else may have some experience.

[misty]

Hi Angela! My daughter is ADD inattentive with a math LD, so I don't know much about this. I have, however, researched a bit & here are a few things I've found that might be of interest or help to you.


CAPD (Central Auditory Processing Disorder) is a receptive language disorder which makes it difficult to process sounds, particularly speech sounds. Some forms of CAPD are referred to as "auditory dyslexia".

An important thing to remember is that these kids do not have a "hearing problem"! Their physical hearing is actually above average in acuity. They can hear sounds that are too quiet or too far away for most people to hear. They can hear some high frequencies that other people cannot hear at all. CAPD does not mean that They can't hear, or can't do some auditory tasks very well.

CAPD is a disorder which takes place in the brain and makes it difficult to interpret sounds and/or language. It is not a disorder of the ear.

One difficulty because of CAPD, is discriminating between "foreground" and "background" noise. If They am talking in a place where several people are talking, or where there is a lot of background noise like humming or buzzing, they find their comprehension "phasing in and out".

People with CAPD interrupt and do not realise they am doing it, because they are not always aware who is talking and who is "supposed" to be talking.

An accomodation for this,in school would be to allow the child to take tests in an alternate room , eliminating background noise so the child can concentrate.

CAPD causes incoming speech to sound distorted sometimes. This can range from people sounding as if they are "talking backwards", to more simple things like confusion over letters, blurring together of sounds, or things otherwise "sounding wrong". Sometimes things sound like a foreign language or "gibberish".

Sometimes, with my hyperacuity to sound, sound distorts in much the same way that will happen if you take a cheap speaker, attach it to a stereo system or something of the like, and turn the volume up very high. This will cause a "flattening" of the sound, an inability to discriminate the words, and a general lack of tonal complexity.

This can make comprehension, depending on the sort of distortion, either difficult, spotty, or impossible.


Often it takes people with CAPD a long time to figure out what someone has said. They tend to "store" such things and process them later.

Most of the info above came from here:

www.autistics.org/library/capd.html

There is so much more info there, including accommodations that can be made to help the child.

[bugsmom]

Welcome, Angela! I'm so glad that you found us!

I hope that we can be a wonderful support for you in dealing with your daughter. I have a 11 year old son with ADHD and anxiety thrown in to keep me on my toes...hee hee.

Can you tell us a little bit about your daughter and the issues you deal with daily? We would love to hear your story and help and support you as much as we can.

Welcome to the group! We look forward in getting to know you and your wonderful daughter!

[charliegirl]

Its much harder to find anything on AID than to find something on APD. CAPD appears to be a cognitive disability while AID is sensory.

I did find a site which explains AID and the treatment. www.georgianainstitute.org/quest.htm#WAIT

[jj]

I just wanted to welcome you to the site. I think the links both Misty and Barb gave you will help you a bit. I'm going to refresh my memory and do some searches and I'll post anything that I find that may be helpful.

[lostmyshoe]

Hi,

A little late getting into this topic but I do have some personal experience with APD. Both my daughter and I have APD(Auditory Processing Disorder). With us it involves how quickly our brain decodes what is being told to us. If someone speaks to quickly sometimes we have to ask them to repeat what they said. It really has nothing to do with your actual hearing or intellect, it's just that your brain is a little slower at decoding the information you are receiving. Background noise can also make it more difficult. When my daughter was checked by an audiologist she said that Becca did have a lag in response to the information she was receiving but that she compensates pretty well. There are programs and excersizes you can do to help with this but in our case Becca does real well in school and the lag does not seem to inhibit her. Her ADD however did because of her focus and lag in social development. She is pretty much catching up there too now though and has always done pretty well in school. Now High School is another story. We will see what happens there. We have never had problems with the speech area, just the information processing part of it so I don't know a lot about that end of it, but an audiologist or neurologist can probably lead you in the right direction and I think the girls found some good info on it in the other posts.

[4myaustin]

Hello!
New to this board! My son was "officially" and shall I say finally dx'd with capd yesterday.

It has taken me two very long years to get the school district to agree to this testing.

Though I do not have her report yet, I was pleased to see your descriptions of capd,

"An important thing to remember is that these kids do not have a "hearing problem"! Their physical hearing is actually above average in acuity. They can hear sounds that are too quiet or too far away for most people to hear. They can hear some high frequencies that other people cannot hear at all. CAPD does not mean that They can't hear, or can't do some auditory tasks very well."

The audiologist said that my son could probably hear grass wave. I laughed because we used to joke that he could hear a chip bag open a mile away!

This happens all the time as well.
"People with CAPD interrupt and do not realize they am doing it, because they are not always aware who is talking and who is "supposed" to be talking."

My son, who is 8 now and was originally dx'd with sever receptive / expressive lang D/O at the age of 4, has been in speech since 4, I started to learn about CAPD at 5, I was told he was too young to dx CAPD, so we waited and waited and argued with the school district, who wanted to label ADD, not to say that he doesn't have attention issues because he does, but he also has sensory integration, the under responsive type as well. But I felt it necessary to deal with the issues at hand before we dealt with the attention issues as the two, CAPD and SI both mimic ADHD.

Anyhow, not to ramble I just found this site when logging on to Net Haven, I used to be a Schwab junkie, then have wondered over to Millermoms, I personally do not like the Great Schools site and have wondered around aimlessly.

[misty]

Welcome, 4myaustin! I'm glad you found us! Don't you hate when the schools make you wait & wait & wait to get your child tested, when they'd be much better off to get the correct help sooner rather than later? i'm glad you finally got your diagnosis.

Make yourself at home here.I look forward to getting to know you.

[charliegirl]

I remember you from Schwab. You'll fit in here wonderfully.

Congrats on finally getting an accurate diagnosis. I'm eager to hear how it goes when you confront them with it and start asking for them to provide FAPE. ;D

I don't like GS either. I don't even bother going there but I try to get to the other sites that I know ex schwabbies belong to and I go to Mayleng's a few times just about every day.