What is Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)?
Audiology is a medically-based field and the report will almost certainly go back to your doctors for their input. You are also legally entitled to a copy for your own uses if you sign a release. If words or ideas presented to be clear to a doctor or educator are not clear to you, call the audiologist for an explanation. Beneath the academic, emotional, and social facade of learning disabilities lies a mild neurologic dysfunction, and it is not unusual for an LD person to have subtle hearing problems. The hearing impairment is rarely a loss of acuity in the ear itself, once the common ear infections of early childhood have been corrected medically or outgrown, but instead is usually located in the neural pathways of the brain which link the ear with the highest intellectual centers (the central auditory nervous system.
