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CAPD and College?

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What about CAPD and college? I was diagnosed with CAPD 3 years ago, at the age of 15 (also dyslexic, elementry school). I’m currently 18 and facing my senior year of high school, and just began the college search just as thousands of others students my age. It’s always been a struggle and I’ve have developed my own routine to make up for the discrepency as much as possible. However, I have had the benefit of small classes of a private schols (max 15 kids, for the past six years) and teachers who are very aware and helpful, all I need to do is ask. I remember my time in public school with 25+ students in a class and practacially failing out. My concern now is how to make the adjustment to college, were I won’t always have the luxury of small closure, and execptionally caring teachers and numerous times go out of their way to assist you. Of course my biggest fear is large lecture halls, though at this point trying to advoid all large universities as possible. What else can I do besides prefered seating, notetakers (very visual still need to take my own notes two, because the processing of writing them, helps me retain the information.) and tape recorders is there? I’m too old for Earobics, plus I can’t ask all my teachers to were headphones. I’d rather were a hearing aid myself, but don’t know if it can be done for a CAPD case. (educational purposes) Also, special hearing aids are supposed to becoming better at filtering out backround noise. Does any of this makes sense or possible from a medical or more specifically too an audiologist view? Because anything on this board and that I found thus found on other websites in in regards to helping children only. My question essentially what else can be done to aid college age and older, especially in a large setting like a lecture hall?

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