Auditory Processing Difficulties (CAPD)

Auditory Processing Disorder can be hard to diagnose. It can often look like an attention related difficulty or even a receptive language impairment. Unaddressed it can become a literacy difficulty and cause serious problems for a child learning in a busy classroom.

Essentially a child with Auditory Processing Disorder has a difficulty processing sound information in the presence of competing noise, with signal distortions, or timing changes. Having a CAPD does not mean you have a receptive and expressive language delay but untreated it could end up that way.

Justine can assist with a differential diagnosis in this area, provide treatment and make appropriate referrals.