Improving Central Auditory Processing Deficits (CAPD)
Central Auditory Processing Deficits (CAPD) Explained
Central refers to the brain. Deficits
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I had no answers until Cheri Moore started to help me and recommended Central Auditory Processing (CAPD) testing. Finally, answers! My granddaughter was diagnosed with severe CAPD; it explained her behaviors and academic difficulties to a “T”. Cheri Moore provided invaluable help! My granddaughter’s visual processing abilities improved with vision therapy, especially after she received her hearing aid!
A Relieved Grandmother, Chesapeake, VA 2014
Auditory Processing Connected To Confusion, Forgetfulness, Listening, and Attention Difficulties
Researchers Chermak, Somers, and Seikel (1998) found that hearing loss behavioral characteristics associated with Central Auditory Processing Deficits negatively affect the following areas depending on the types of auditory processing deficits:
- Motor planning
- Visual processing skills (visual-motor skills)
- Changing attention from one activity to another
- Maintaining attention, an auditory and visual skill
- Listening skills
- Attention skills (ADHD)
- Short-term memory difficulties
- Delays in academic and social skills
Central Auditory Processing Deficits (CAPD) causes difficulties in a person’s ability to:
- Correctly process and organize sound
- Discriminate and recognize finite differences between sounds
- Correctly order non-speech sounds (Illiadou, Bamiou, Kaprinis, Kandylis, Kaprinis (2009)
CAPD difficulties also negatively affect:
- Reading, reading comprehension, and spelling
- Expressive speech, writing is a form of expression (Yalcinkaya, Muluk, and Sahin)
Learn more about CAPD from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Cheri Moore's Findings Resulted in Improved Responses to AIT and Vision Therapy
Cheri Moore's desire to improve clients' emotional response during auditory integration training resulted in the discovery of a high rate of co-existing visual processing difficulties with sound intolerance, with or without a hearing loss. After some clients experienced increased visual processing difficulties during AIT, like chronic double vision, Cheri Moore collaborated with optometrists specializing in vision therapy to track client's progress. Auditory-visual protocols have resulted in improved responses to auditory integration training and vision therapy.
Enlarged Adenoids, Tonsils, and Learning Difficulties
My son was diagnosed with Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), an autism spectrum at age 4. He had speech and developmental delay. At the advice of the public-school system, I enrolled him in their special preschool program. It was supposed to help with his...
Young Adult With CAPD
In March of 2018, my son started his journey to learn if he had Auditory Processing Disorder. He was 21 years old. He had a long history of IEP’s with no real definitive diagnosis. It started with Hyperlexia when he was three. (Hyperlexia-early reader, no...
Unknown Hearing Loss
Year after year, I saw my son gradually fall behind in reading comprehension. He never liked to read even though he passed his phonetics reading program and successfully decoded words, read sentences, and then whole paragraphs. After each annual achievement test, I...
Impact of a Weak Vestibular System: The Inner Ear
After Cheri Moore’s success with helping my older son, I decided to seek her advice regarding my younger son’s unclear speech and lack of attentiveness. We thought his speech would improve over time, but by age five I realized he needed speech therapy. My younger son...
Overcoming CAPD with Autism
My daughter was diagnosed with autism and central auditory processing disorder (CAPD). We schooled her at home, and even with my background in teaching, it was very difficult. I would have to fight with her to make her begin her school work. While teaching her, she...
A Future for My Daughter: Diminishing L.D. / Sound Sensitivities
Ashylyn did not talk much when she was little and was shy about interacting with people. I sent her to a private Christian school for kindergarten hoping she would come out of her shell. Unfortunately, there were more problems than just shyness. I remember feeling...
CAPD Diagnosis at 21 years; Success with Hearing Aids and AIT
Finding out that my 21-year-old son had a hidden hearing loss (CAPD) was a relief. He is very intelligent. Not getting the right help was causing feelings of depression and hopelessness. Finally, an answer to the questions I have had for so long! He never really fit...
A Relieved Grandmother: CAPD Success with Hearing Aids
I was at my wit’s end when I met Cheri Moore. My oldest granddaughter, whom I had guardianship, had been tested for every possible psychological learning disability, including autism. She was prescribed medication, which did not seem to help. Still, no diagnosis. I...
A Mother’s Journey Into the World of Dyslexia
Diagnosing Dyslexia During the spring of 2007, I attended Dianne Craft’s conference where I learned that dyslexia affected the auditory processing center and the visual processing center. Perhaps I had found help for my daughter’s reading and spelling struggles. She...
FDA Statement On AIT
"Auditory Integration Training remediates impairments in auditory discrimination (sound sensitivity and auditory distortion) associated with Autism, Learning Disabilities, and related disorders - ADD, ADHD, CAPD (Central Auditory Processing Deficits), SPD (Sensory Processing Disorder), Dyslexia."
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