FW: From Teri Bellis's Book: 4 Subprofiles of CAPD (Central Auditory Processing Disorder)

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THE 4 SUBPROFILES OF CAPD

TYPE 1: AUDITORY DECODING DEFICIT

PRIMARY SEQUELAE: Sound, recognition, blending, reading & writing skills,

adversely affected. Poor auditory closure abilities.

CENTRAL TEST FINDINGS: Poor performance on monaural low redundancy speech

tests and speech-in-noise. Site of dusfunction primary auditory cortex.

MANAGEMENT: Phoneme training, preteach new information, improve acoustic

clarity of signal.

TYPE 2: INTEGRATION DEFICIT

PRIMARY SEQUELAE: Difficulty on multimodality tasks, reading, spelling,

writing and use of symbolic language and prosody. Poor music skills.

CENTRAL TEST FINDINGS: Left ear deficit on dichotic speech tasks combined

with bilateral deficit on tests of temporal patterning requiring verbal

report. Site of dysfunction: corpus callosum/

MANAGEMENT: Interhemispheric exercises, reduce use of multimodality cues,

prosody training, key word extraction, music training.

TYPE 3: ASSOCIATIVE DEFICIT:

PRIMARY SEQUELAE: Receptive language deficits, pragmatic skills may be

poor.

Acaifficulties may not become apparent until the 3rd grade.

CENTRAL TEST FINDINGS: Bilateral deficit on dichotic speech tasks, poor

word

recognition skills. Site of dysfunction: primary & associative cortical

regions.

MANAGEMENT: Language intervention combined with compensatory strategies.

TYPE 4: OUTPUT-ORGANIZATION DEFICIT

PRIMARY SEQUELAE: Deficit in sequencing, planning and organizing responses.

Poor organizational skills, reversals, poor recall and sequencing abilities.

Motor skills often affected.

CENTRAL TEST FINDINGS: Difficulty on any task requiring report of more than

2 critical elements. Site of dysfunction: efferent system.

MANAGEMENT: Similar to associative deficit, including training of

organizational skills and language intervention.

* Page 193 " Assessment and Management of Central Auditory Processing

Disorders in the Educational Setting "

Teri Bellis