Cognitive

Communicatio
Social/
Physical
Sensory
CDIS 402: Disability Portfolio n
Successes
and Challenges to Language DevelopmentFall 2015
Emotional
Linguistic
Disability Difficulty with Cant
Often give
Breakdown
Background noise
profile:
memorizing
remember a
up/cant pay
along auditory distracts them, hate
(especially
bunch of steps
attention and
nerve no
loud noises, cannot
instructions
that theyre
get called on;
actual physical comprehend some
they were just told to do,
cannot attend
characteristics sounds and miss many
told),
would rather do to what friends from the
phonemes.
Breakdown
anything BUT
are saying
outside
along auditory read, have poor
nerve
conversational
skills, confuses
words with
similar
sounding
words; both
expressive and
receptive
language are
affected but
receptive is
more affected
than
expressive
language
Impact
Due to the
Cant
Hard to make
Have
Hear a bunch of
on oral
breakdown,
communicate
friends
difficulties
instructions almost
and
they cannot
their
because they
processing
simultaneously, sounds
written
discriminate
needs/wants,
cant focus on
what they hear get mixed up so they
language between
get lost in
what a friend
and often mix
often cant connect
develop
different
conversations,
is saying
up phonemes
oral language with
ment:
phonemes
misunderstandi
and
written language
and
ng phonemes
morphemes
morphemes
and
morphemes
can change the
meaning of
what they are
reading or
writing; often
affects spelling

CDIS 402: Disability Portfolio

Successes and Challenges to Language DevelopmentFall 2015

Factors within the student related to functioning

My big ideas from the readings:
The readings really helped me to understand APD along with the differences between dyslexia, SLI, ADHD,
ASD, HFA and APD. I found that it is really important to have an accurate diagnosis, although the
assessments may give different answers. I did not realize how badly more accurate assessments are
needed to really understand and diagnose APD.
My big ideas from the group presentation:
CAPD has a lot to do with dichotic listening and misunderstanding the phonemes they are hearing which can completely change the
meaning. With the right kind of stimulation, children can adapt to be able to learn and overcome difficulties.
- A lot of ADHD cases are actually misdiagnosed; should be CAPD
- Affects about 5% of school-aged children
- An audiologist is the only one that can diagnose a child with CAPD
Reflection (What does this mean for my practice?):
When working with a client, make sure you accurately diagnose them. Having a client with APD means
they may have difficulties memorizing (especially with directions), they cannot differentiate between
different phonemes and morphemes, they will have difficulties spelling, and they probably dont like
reading. This means that I need to create a plan specific to the child and what (s)he likes to do and can do.
I must be patient and give directions multiple times in order for them to understand.