about CAPD

[Charlie Girl]

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What is central auditory processing disorder (CAPD)?

CAPD refers to the process of how the ears and brain take in auditory information. Children with CAPD can hear well, but they don't listen well. Their brains don't pick up the electrical signals coming from their ears. Children with CAPD have trouble listening, understanding speech, and developing language. Therefore they have difficulty in using auditory information to communicate and to learn. CAPD is a set of problems that occur in different listening tasks -- receiving, analyzing, organizing, storing, retrieving and using information based on auditory stimuli. These difficulties may become exacerbated in noisy or unfavorable acoustic environments.

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[misty]

WOW! I never knew much about CAPD...Thats a great site with clear, easy to understand info!

[John]

Wow, that is Interesting . . . The more I know, the more I know I don't know.

[lostmyshoe]

Hi John,

Thanks so much for the info. This is what my daughter and I both have and I'm pretty sure my Dad had, who was an electrical engineer for the government. The audiologist explained to us that in my daughter's case, her hearing is fine and it also has nothing to do with her actual intelligence, just the speed in which her brain decodes the information she recieves. There is a lag between the time you recieve it and the time your brain processes it for you to be able to respond. Background noise can also make it more difficult to recieve information. My daughter seems to compensate pretty well but for me sometimes if people talk really fast I have to ask them to repeat it and I have a little trouble when I am in a noisy area. The funniest thing is that I talk a blue streak myself and sometimes people have to actually ask "me" to slow down. Once in a while it gets frustrating when I am nervous and in a new setting and learning new things, but all in all it's not too bad and it's just something I've learned to live with. Losty