Hello,
My 10 year old daughter has had trouble reading since 2nd grade (now 5th), although this wasn’t actually truly discovered until 4th grade.
I have just recently had her evaluated for ADD, and the psychiatrist diagnosed depression and ADD (possibly with H).
Last year, the school district told me she had an auditory processing learning disability. Now, they are saying that she doesn’t have any LDs, just ADD. This is after doing more extensive CAPD testing.
What I’m wondering is if ADD(with or without H) would explain the very classic dyslexic symptoms she shows. She transposes numbers, puts the ‘l’ at the beginning of the word, etc.
Thanks,
Laura
Re: explanation for reading troubles
I frankly never trust school district testing. And the symptoms you’re describing do sound like more than ADD.
One question to always consider when working with schools is -what would you like them to do? It helps to know what you want from them.
What programs do they offer children with reading issues in her school? Maybe you want her in those whether she tests as having a reading issue or not. Do you want her with a particular teacher? Or more testing done? Whatever it might be, don’t let the testing stop you from asking.
Good luck.
Re: explanation for reading troubles
I recommend that you read a book called The LCP Solution: The Remarkable Nutritional Treatment for ADHD, Dyslexia and Dyspraxia by Dr. Jacqueline Stordy. LCP stands for longchain polyunsaturated fatty acids. You can also go to her website which is drstordy.com or go to a website called borntoexplore.org and look for the section on essential fatty acid deficiency and ADD.
Laura,
ADD and CAPD overlap quite a bit. The reason being is that if a person has trouble attending to auditory information they are not comprehending it and so appear to have CAPD when in reality they may have ADD.. When they are on meds they can attend much better and when tested may not show CAPD. However, there are people like my daughter and myself who have both CAPD and ADD. It is really hard to tease which came first CAPD or ADD and it is really hard to tease them apart. So many of the things that you are mentioning in regards to flipping letters and the like can be due to inattentive errors in reading and doing math computations or not understanding the phonemic code of reading. My own daughter is very good at math yet is plagued by inattentive errors in calculations and reading miscues. It can be frustrating. I have tested kids who were originally diagnosed as CAPD but when they went on meds for ADD the CAPD disappeared. As I said it get’s complicated. There are some interesting articles that you can find on-line about CAPD and ADD. Just start putting them in on a search engine and start reading…