I am not that familiar with CAPD. There is a student I work with who I suspect has some disorder and I’m thinking it is CAPD. He just had his 3 year reevaluation. He has trouble pronouncing some larger, multi-syllabic words. His spelling is very poor and he will often leave off vowels or sometimes entire syllables. He has difficulty decoding multi-syllabic words also. His auditory comprehension is quite good. He was dismissed from Speech/Language services at the beginning of this year. At the evaluation review meeting I spoke of my concerns and the psychologist reported that he did not pick up on anything. His SpEd teacher reported her work with his on decoding is not working well. I could not get anyone to pursue the issue any farther. Could this be CAPD? Thanks much for any responses.
Re: Symptoms of CAPD
If you want to know more about CAPD, there is lots of information on the LD In Depth page on this site.
However, what you are describing sounds like a common pattern among my students. You say he hears and discriminates OK, but has a sloppy pattern of output. I very often find that I am the first person in a kid’s life who has actually tried to correct pronunciation and spelling; to do so is still not politically correct in many places. Since he has gotten along so far and even been praised while omitting all those pesky endings and internal syllables, he figures they are just so much useless ornamentation. If the student/family will go along with it, this can be corrected gradually.
The majority of children with true reading disorders have problems with phonnological processing, or auditory processing. But realistically, if the child has placed out of speech-language, then the academic needs will have to be met by using a multi-sensory structured language reading program. I very much like the CTOPP (Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing) to give me information on phonological awareness, memory, and rapid naming.
Janis