I am confused by my daughter who has CAPD, poor word recall and short term memory and vision tracking problems.The school is saying she is doing great. She is happy and has friends.They showed me a sentence that she wrote that was nicely written and spelled and told me she had read her book “Alice in Wonderland” because she had answered questions about it. NOW I see something different from work she does with me she spells phonetically sometimes missing critical letters and is sloppy even when I don’t ask her to it is on her own.I know she knows “Alice in Wonderland ” because she watched the movie and when she read it to me she only read the captions under the pictures. I am getting a feeling that the school thinks it is a power struggle going on and that is why I am having so much difficulty and they don’t see that she is off task at school.When I take her to the tutor for reading she is looking out the window ,tries different markers,comments on things around her which the teacher can get her back on task —so I keep going back and forth is she off task or is it a power struggle, her CAPD,her vision tracking problem because at this point I dont have a daughter who is off task according to teachers and the Conners form the teacher filled out. She just got tested for reading by outside specialist no results yet but was told my daughter seemed depressed and did not know her constenants.She has started several reading programs so sure she knew sounds had her sound a few and she got asked why she didn’t know sounds on test she said she was bored.What to do and think?
Re: confused by performance
Hi,
I have a son with LD and a host of problems and I totally understand your frustration with your daughter and the school’s version of her achievements.
My advise to you is to run, not walk to qualified pediatric neuro-psychologist. I just took my son to one that was reffered to me by IDA. I am kicking myself I did not do this years ago. This is the one stop cohesive report that will tie everything together, it will pick up strengths and weakness’s that were probably overlooked by the other evaluators. The problem with the evaluations I had before was that each therapist/reading specialist only evaluated a piece, there was no one person with the expertise to take all the peices and put them together and explain why some learning processes worked with my son and why others didn’t. It also explained a lot of inconsistent performances! She picked up other LD’s that had been totally overlooked in 7 IEP’s. If you would like to email me pivately you are welcome to. Good luck!
Re: confused by performance
Hi Robin,
How interesting about the neuro-psychologist. What is the difference between the neuro and a regular psychologist that deals with children with learning disabilities. We have just started seeing a psychologist who deals with learning disabilities but he was satisified with what the school found although I am not sure we have the whole picture on everything that is possibly going on with my son. Had you seen a regular psychologist over the years? Am I wasting my time on this path? We are having the same problem with the school’s version vs. home. We are totally frustrated and my son is VERY unhappy. For two years we have tried to get the school psychologist and social worker to help put the pieces together, that’s like talking to the wall. We are now looking outside of school for the REAL help he needs.
Re: confused by performance
We go to an outside speech therapist during the summer and she says that having our daughter describe things and tell their functions helps her to organize inside her head.We also tell her different words that mean the same so she can recall words better.She was tested originally at 2 got help for 2 years of preschool and 1 year of developmental kindergarden in which I thought she was getting the LindaMoodBell reading program but found out that teacher hadn’t because she and only 1 other kid were capable of doing it and I wished I had enrolled her in regular kindergarden also but was told that the developmental class was equal to a regular class so didn’t.They tested her then and was confirmed that she had a learning difference.1st grade went well she started to read and do math with manipulatives.2nd grade she would go to different teachers for science and social studies which I did not know till half way thru.She had a poor grade for science main room teacher dismissed it said because its subject matter it was hard for my daughter to grasp.I talked to science teacher and she said my daughter was not getting any concepts at all. I wondered why she hadn’t said anything before then.Psychologist said science teacher was just lecturing up front and daughter was not getting it.So I had them retest I had to write a note as my phone calls about my concerns did nothing. The test showed the same as before but now showing the CAPD with recommendations for front seat,and preteaching of vocabulary words which the teacher says she does in class but my daughter still did not know the meaning of habitat on her homework so I need to go back and say saying in class is not preteaching it and visual models would help.Her reading teacher left and she is on her third teacher for reading this year and I have to explain everything again.I am glad I got an outside tutor she does the Spalding reading method and so far I am happy with it.I don’t think I could have made it this far without the outside help and this website that gives me info I need. Thanks to all!
Hi,
I am new to CAPD. Did you have your daughter privitley tested? We are having the same concerns with our 8 year old son who is also CAPD. The teachers and administrators at his school seem to care about him but say he is doing okay with only lab with a speech teacher. They say (even though private testing shows) that he does not need special help with math. We are going to another IEP next week. It seems the school really wants to mainstream him. How early and what symtoms did your daughter have when you noticed somthing was different about her? If you have time I would love to hear your story.
Candy