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CAPD=Central Auditory Processing Disorder

according to the 2nd link there is actually a subtype often seen in NLD

Central Auditory processing disorder (related to adhd and nld/pdd's i believe):

http://www.iser.com/caparticle.html
http://www.judithpaton.com/checklist.html

“Prosodic” subtype (often seen with NLD or non-verbal learning disability)

Absorbs details and facts, but misses the “big picture” — cannot prioritize or summarize information.

Insensitive to tone of voice; may misjudge speaker’s mood or be unintentionally tactless.

Problems with cause-and-effect reasoning; difficulty surmising the unspoken rules of conversation, play, and other situations.

I thought CAPD was more like an aural dyslexia where there is a processing problem from the ear to the brain. I don't have it but there have been a few times when I was really tired and someone has said something to me and they may as well have been speaking a different language. I ask them to repeat several times and unless they speak very slowly I can't process it into something I can understand. It's rather embarrassing.

It happens to me constantly.

I definitely have CAPD. When things are noisy I find it extremely hard to understand what people are saying. I'm constantly asking for thing to be repeated to me and it's embarrassing. One time at work (preschool kitchen) my job coach asked me to put some uneaten, unopened little bags of potato chips into what I heard as the "grapen" in the back closet, it took them repeating what they said several times until I realixed they were saying "gray bin".

This sounds like me a lot. especially the summarize information part. I was just thinking about this. I read a lot of books and I've never been able to read the back or flap of a book explaining what it's about. None of it registers in my head. I have the same problems with names when reading, names are meaningless to me. I don't remember or recognize character names that well.

I'm always saying people are mad and being told not to take their tone "too literally" which I don't know how that is possible. Why would you use a tone that you didn't mean?

I have it to the point that I am nonverbal in crowds.. I prefer to communicate by text or sign language anyway.

Everyone with an ASD will have this.

It's why the children with AS/AD ignore you when you talk to them (you have to jump in-front of them to grab their attention or continue talking to and repeating such until it gets through).

Visual processing disorder is there too.