[senco-forum] [SENco-forum] Speech and languagedifficultiesandexclusions

Hi Stuart all

That link should be

APD
<http://www.audiologyonline.com/articles/pf_article_detail.asp?article_id=18
03>  Evaluation to Therapy: The Buffalo Model

I will get the hang of this eventually

Best wishes 

dolfrog

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Hi Stuart

It was the other way around

Until 2000 and the ASHA sponsored Bruton Conference We were all talking

about Central Auditory Processing Disorder CAPD, well they were in the USA,

where it was recognised over 30 years ago.

The problem was that during the 1990s some US based audiologists were

developing their own so called models of CAPD to best match the redial

program that they had qualified and were licensed to provide. Which was

almost a license to print money at the expense of those who may have APD, it

got so bad that many leading university CAPD professors refused to teach new

audiologists on ethical grounds because they just wanted to make money

diagnosing CAPD and selling their remedial program to parents etc . Sound

familiar there are some dyslexia program like that. 

So during the late 1990s ASHA set about defining CAPD so that it could

conform to the USA disability legislation regarding disability and the

provision of Disability support in the education system. The leading lights

in this ASHA consultation process, were Jim Jerger, Robert Kieth, Gail D.

Chermak, Terri James Bellis, Frank Musiek, ALAN B. GERTNER, and others. 

The Central part refereed to the Central nervous system, which was the area

initially identified to be the cause of these problems. But at the Bruton

Conference it was recognised that there were other issues that can cause the

same problems such as severe Ear infections such as Glue Ear. So the C was

dropped. During the passage of time to 2005 when the first ASHA Technical

report were published the C made a re-appearance as (C)APD for continuity. 

You may find this article useful as it traces the history of APD in the USA

and is by Jack Katz. "APD Evaluation to Therapy: The Buffalo Model" /14/2007

Jack Katz, Ph.D., Audiology Online Contributing Editor 

http://www.audiologyonline.com/articles/pf_article_detail.asp?article_id=180

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In the UK we the Medical Research Council and in Australia were most of

research has been post 2000 we are talking only about APD.

I very much doubt we will go back to CAPD.

Best wishes

dolfrog

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Sent: 18 April 2008 11:25

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Subject: RE: [senco-forum] [SENco-forum] Speech and language

difficultiesandexclusions

Hi Dolfrog -

Quick Q -

'why has (for some) APD changed to CAPD?

Tks

Stuart