If your child has CAPD, what has helped?

[walkermamaof4]

Would love to hear if anyone has seen great leaps through any program. We just found out that one of our children likely has this-no official diagnosis yet. Thx.

[AliR]

DD10 had some good gains using Fast ForWord. But I think we have seen a lot of improvement through maturity (she works through some of the issues herself), reading aloud to practice good language, and a lot of talking and listening.

[dirty ethel rackham]

Ds had this. We did sequences where we would recite a sequence (numbers, letters, random words, etc.) and he would have to recite it back to us. We worked on increasing the length on the sequence. We did the Listening Program. We read aloud. He listened to books on tape. We would give multi-step instructions and have him repeat them back to us before asking him to do things.

[walkermamaof4]

DD10 had some good gains using Fast ForWord. But I think we have seen a lot of improvement through maturity (she works through some of the issues herself), reading aloud to practice good language, and a lot of talking and listening.

Can you tell me the cost and for how long and how long it took daily? Thanks!

[Lecka]

My son had a thing where some letters sound the same to him. He did speech therapy and there is a program similar called Lips. It would only be good if confusing letter sounds is the problem, I think.

 

I have read a book from the library and didn't think my son had any other symptoms. He is much improved.

[AliR]

Cost was $1500 for a four month session of therapy using an on-line at home provider. We did it for 60 mins/day, 5 days/week.

[geodob]

CAPD is made up of a spectrum different difficulties, so that it is important to first identify what the problem/s is or are?

For example, one difficulty is with hearing certain frequency ranges, and more often high frequencies. So that sounds such as: sh, th, c, can be difficult to discriminate.

Another problem is where one ear is processing sound a bit slower than the other ear? Which tends to 'blur' sound.

A further common problem, is a difficulty with filtering out any 'competing sounds'.

Then another problem is 'hyper-sensitive' hearing.

 

So that it is important to first identify what the actual problem is.

[Tiramisu]

CAPD is made up of a spectrum different difficulties, so that it is important to first identify what the problem/s is or are?

For example, one difficulty is with hearing certain frequency ranges, and more often high frequencies. So that sounds such as: sh, th, c, can be difficult to discriminate.

Another problem is where one ear is processing sound a bit slower than the other ear? Which tends to 'blur' sound.

A further common problem, is a difficulty with filtering out any 'competing sounds'.

Then another problem is 'hyper-sensitive' hearing.

 

So that it is important to first identify what the actual problem is.

 

 

I agree with this very much. We have one with the last three problems above.

 

Generally, we were told reading aloud and musical activities would be helpful, as well as games like Simon and Bop It. These should be helpful for anyone, I think.

[TheReader]

Ds had this. We did sequences where we would recite a sequence (numbers, letters, random words, etc.) and he would have to recite it back to us. We worked on increasing the length on the sequence. We did the Listening Program. We read aloud. He listened to books on tape. We would give multi-step instructions and have him repeat them back to us before asking him to do things.

 

 

this is what we do as well.

 

We use a software called Earobics which is helping him a great deal. It deals with a wide variety of issues all related to auditory processing.

 

We do a lot of the repetition games. To make it interesting (my son with this struggle is 8 yrs old) we do the games like "I'm going to grandma's, and I'm taking a cat...." then the next person says "I'm going...and I"m taking a cat and an umbrella..." and so on. I mix it up so that we do categories at the same time (so, we go to the beach, camping, to the grocery store, to the toy store, etc....) (changing bringing to buying in the store cases).

 

We do Simon Says a lot, and take turns giving/receiving the directions.

 

We use dice or dominoes or flash cards (or regular playing cards) to come up with the number sequences, or I even found a card game called Distraction which I use. We don't do the distraction cards, but we flip a card, each in turn, and repeat back the numbers.

 

We also do "hide the toy" or "find the toy" where I give him specific directions of where to either find, or hide, a given toy. So, "in the kitchen, under the table, next to the wall" or "in your bedroom, on the bed, under the covers, where you put your feet." Just to make it fun.

 

He's improving, but we're only about 8 months into it so far....

[VinNY]

http://www.concordspedpac.org/CAPD.html

 

This is a great site from a school's special ed site that I have bookmarked.

I saw a specialist SLP/Audiologist who dxed my dtr. I was given a written report with suggestions, therapies and accommodations.

Besides private and school speech therapy which she still receives:

We used for sound discrimination, phonemic awareness etc- LiPs and Earobics plus exercises in the back of Dr. Rosner's book Helping Children overcome Learning Difficulties

Memory/Directions - Earobics, Auditory Sequential Memory exercises, Listen My Children and You Shall Hear (Pro-Ed)

OT- helped with vestibular issues and also did Therapeutic Listening,

Reading- O-G based program, books on tape, made use of an auditory trainer for LiPs and phonemic awareness exercises

[Dory]

We have played a lot of things like Simon and Bop it. Lots of saying things and having them repeated back and getting longer and more complex with those over time. The repeating back was usually a game and we would use simple sounds in different sequences and keep getting longer with them. Then we would start saying actually words and numbers. Now we are retaining 3 sentences at a time and repeating them back which might not sound like a big deal in 4th grade, but for him it's huge. We have done LOTS of reading aloud and discussing out story in tiny little pieces at a time. If I read to big of chunks he would be so lost by the time we would talk it was pointless to even try. Little pieces we can work with. Now we can make it through a full chapter in most books before we talk. This year has been a great year for growth with him.

 

Oddly learning the mechanics of grammar helped him out a lot too. He would understand where everything belonged and start changing his speech accordingly. His sentences were really, really strangely put together before. Speech therapy helped with individual sounds, but it wasn't helping his comprehension, word retrieval issues, or his verbal sentence structure. Those came with time and practice.

 

I almost forgot to add music. We have done a LOT of music study and music lessons and music listening. Music has helped him to be discerning of different sounds and sequences.

[Dory]

Sorry I just realized that I was reading an old thread. Didn't mean to post on it, I forgot what I was doing. My apologies.

[Paige]

For example, one difficulty is with hearing certain frequency ranges, and more often high frequencies. So that sounds such as: sh, th, c, can be difficult to discriminate.

Wouldn't that just be hearing loss? I thought CAPD was when the ear physically hears correctly and you should pass all hearing tests. What you described above would result in a failed hearing test. It's actually why my DS has hearing aids and they make a huge difference. My understanding is that CAPD would not be helped by wearing aids. Also, hearing loss is covered by our insurance for children and any treatment for CAPD is specifically excluded.