Subject: APD or CAPD From: "Watson, Charles S." <watson@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2011 13:53:36 +0000 List-Archive:<http://lists.mcgill.ca/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=AUDITORY>--_000_5DB8BA49346ABA459CD3CA3EC946B7F40A6F8CDCIUMSSGMBX107ads_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Just a thought on the recent query about APD or CAPD. Despite a great deal= of attention to this topic in the clinical community, it remains rather po= orly defined. Assertions that 2 or 5 or 8 per cent of children have "it" a= re common, but the "it" remains very obscure. Like some other catch-all di= agnostic labels, it is said that a child has this problem if some subset of= a large set of criteria are met. Poor performance on parts of the SCAN ba= ttery are most often included, although that battery has reliability proble= ms. So two cases of "it" may have very little in common. There remains co= nsiderable controversy regarding whether it is auditory at all, with data m= arshalled on either side of that question. Many of the recommended treatme= nts ought to have a positive impact on any under-achieving child, but impro= ved performance as a result of them is sometimes claimed to validate not on= ly the treatment, but the diagnosis and the status of the disorder. Testam= onials from from parents and clinicians provide continuing support for this= diagnosis and for a variety of such treatments. A lot of these issues are reviewed in Cacace, A.T., and McFarland, D.J. (E= ditors), Controversies in Central Auditory Processing Disorder. San Diego: = Plural Publishing (2009). I do recommend it, and not merely because we wr= ote a chapter for it. Best to all, Chuck Watson --_000_5DB8BA49346ABA459CD3CA3EC946B7F40A6F8CDCIUMSSGMBX107ads_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html dir=3D"ltr"> <head> <meta http-equiv=3D"Content-Type" content=3D"text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-= 1"> <style id=3D"owaParaStyle">P { MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px } </style> </head> <body fPStyle=3D"1" ocsi=3D"0"> <div style=3D"direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: = 10pt;"> <p>Just a thought on the recent query about APD or CAPD. Despite a gr= eat deal of attention to this topic in the clinical community, it remains r= ather poorly defined. Assertions that 2 or 5 or 8 per cent of childre= n have "it" are common, but the "it" remains very obscure. Like some other catch-all diagnostic labels, it i= s said that a child has this problem if some subset of a large set of = criteria are met. Poor performance on parts of the SCAN battery are m= ost often included, although that battery has reliability problems. So two cases of "it" may have very little in com= mon. There remains considerable controversy regarding whether it= is auditory at all, with data marshalled on either side of that quest= ion. Many of the recommended treatments ought to have a positive impact on any under-achieving child, but improved performance as= a result of them is sometimes claimed to validate not only the treatm= ent, but the diagnosis and the status of the disorder. Test= amonials from from parents and clinicians provide continuing support for this diagnosis and for a variety of such treatments. </= p> <p> </p> <p>A lot of these issues are reviewed in Cacace, A.T., and McFar= land, D.J. (Editors), Controversies in Central Auditory Processing Disorder= . San Diego: Plural Publishing (2009). I do recommend it, and n= ot merely because we wrote a chapter for it.</p> <p> </p> <p>Best to all,</p> <p> </p> <p>Chuck Watson</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p> </div> </body> </html> --_000_5DB8BA49346ABA459CD3CA3EC946B7F40A6F8CDCIUMSSGMBX107ads_--