My seven-year old daughter was recently diagnosed with CAPD in integration and decoding. We are at a public school that is three-years old, and no one at the school has ever been diagnosed with CAPD before. The speech teacher at the school insists that my daughter does not qualify for speech services because my daughter’s language scores on the TOLD-P:3 fell within normal range. The speech teacher says it is the resource teacher’s job to address the decoding issue. She also told me that I had my terminology mixed up and that CAPD was not the same as an auditory processing disorder. From everything I’ve read, she’s the one with the mix-up. The resource teacher, psychologist, classroom teacher and I all asked that she send the results of the CAPD testing to the district audiologist. She said she wasn’t going over her boss’ head (her boss told her that my daughter was not elegible for services). I told her that if she didn’t that I would and would also get a lot more people (like the principal and superintendent) involved. My daughter’s testing was done privately at the Medical University of South Carolina. The speech teacher told me that their recommendation of having speech-language therapy to address the decoding deficit was not a valid one because it was written for a clinical, not an educational environment. Shouldn’t the speech teacher be addressing the decoding defecit and the resource teacher addressing the reading issues my daughter’s having? What are some of the services that other children with CAPD recieving in the public schools? We are meeting after the holidays to make an IEP plan. Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I should have included? Sorry for the long diatribe, I am really overwhelmed by all of this.
Meaghan
this SLP sounds like she's from the old school
I remember when an SLP told me that she didn’t teach phonology, she only taught articulation and it was the teacher’s job to teach phonology. Her credential was 30 years old..LOL I told her you are behind the times, because the newer SLP’s teach phonology and if the teacher can’t do it you should, thank heavens she ended up retiring that year. What I would suggest is getting a FM System for your daughter to help her with her auditory processing, try Earobics at home and get a copy of Reading Reflex and start doing some of the exercises with her at home.
Perhaps it would be a good idea to put your efforts into finding a private reading tutor to help her with decoding, instead of spinning your wheels fighting with the district and the clueless SLP.
Re: this SLP sounds like she's from the old school
I totally agree with Pattim and I would get a tutor but make your school district pay for it. I had to fight for it but they are now paying, they don’t make it easy though. Good Luck Liz
My son’s district doesn’t recognize CAPD either. He is classified as having a specific language disability and gets resource services on that basis. He gets speech services based on the results of CLEF and PAT. We have had auditory processing IEP goals as part of both resource room and speech.
Basically, you need to have the school or some private testing document the educational impact of CAPD. They are viewing CAPD as a medical disorder which is none of their concern.
CAPD—stands for Central auditory processing disorder. I understand that the latest terminology drops off the central part.
Beth