Hello,
My child is 6 years old and has Central Auditory Processing Disorder.
Should I teach my child Sign Language?
I want to know how i will beable to help my child hear better.
She has had lots of hearing tests and they all came out fine.
Please help me help her.
Michelle
sign language
My school taught my daughter sign language. She actually picked it up pretty well although my daughter has CAP we used it to facilitate her language. She has word retrieval issues and sometimes says the wrong word such as water for milk.I haven’t used it much though cause I think she is self consience about it but am trying subtly to use it as I talk as it would make us understanding each other clearer.
Re: My child has CAPD
My son with PDD-NOS was taught sign when he was first learning to communicate. Once he was able to tell us what he wanted he relaxed more and soon was able to speak to us. We now use it to help him study his spelling words because this is a visual means and he is very visual. The other nice thing about it was that when he was in special needs pre-school he was able to communicatte with the two deaf students in the class. You may also want to check into an FM trainer to help her to focus better on what she is trying to hear.
Here are my CAPD links
http://www.iser.com/caparticle.html
http://www.theshop.net/campbell/central.htm
http://pages.cthome.net/cbristol/capd-idx.html
http://www.geocities.com/denisev2/index.html
So I am not very well versed on CAPD. I do know that not so long ago many children with CAPD were labeled autistic. I did come across this site while surfing for autism. Perhaps it can help you?
http://pages.cthome.net/cbristol/capd-idx.html
Good luck to you!