CAPD/prosodic deficit

Go to processing deficits in LD in depth. Then download Terri Bellis’ article on subtypes of CAPD. Prosodic is one of her subtypes. It is informative and easy to understood.

Beth

I don’t know a lot about CAPD, but I believe that prosodic deficit is related to the ability to recognize and/or correctly interpret the sort of lilting tone in human speech that helps to convey additional meaning.

I have just been reading “When the Brain Can’t Hear.” It contained some information about prosodic deficit. I believe it said that people with this deficit might infer a meaning or emotion that is not there, or miss a meaning that is there. The author herself is a CAPD specialist who acquired CAPD (and if I remember correctly, prosodic deficit) as a result of an automobile accident.

Now seeing Beth’s response, I believe Terri Bellis was the author.

Yes, prosody refers to “expression” in language. When applied to reading prosody refers to reading orally with appropriate phrasing and intonation. A child who is struggling to identify or find words usually does not read with prosody.

My question might be, does this child speak with prosody? If he or she does, then it should be possible to remediate reading to appropriate prodody by starting at the child’s independent reading level and practicing with modeling and shared reading experiences and a little teaching to attend to punctuation. If the child speaks with kind of a flat monotone, then prosody may be a speech and language problem, rather than just a reading problem and a speech and language therapist may be indicated.