Auditory Processing Disorder

[Petal19]

Hi, does anyone here have experience with APD?

Yes, my son has it. Has lots of SALT intervention. Can also be referred to as receptive language issues. He struggles with literacy and numeracy (has statement) phonological awareness a real struggle.

Hi, thanks for your response. My 9 year old son has just been diagnosed with APD. After years of knowing something isn't right and the school refusing to refer him as they think he is just 'slow' and 'will always struggle at school' we went private and now have a diagnosis. I haven't had a meeting with the school yet but I'm wondering what I should expect from the school and what help is out there for him? Yesterday we collected an fm system (hired) for him that we were advised to try and I can already see this could work well for him. How old is your son and was getting the statement difficult?

DH has APD (and is Aspie). He struggles when there is background noise or lots of people talking at once.

None of this has stopped him getting 10 GCSEs, 3 A Levels, a 2.1 BSc and an MSc so I'd be having words with school re him "always struggling".

He is ten. He has had a statement for three years and now goes to an independent specialist school which is named. Statements (now EHCP) aren't generally easy to get, and obviously it does help if you have school on side (which we did) but you can apply yourself, which is the route we took. It is a stressful process of basically "proving failure" and proving why your child needs lots of additional support etc. However, your school should at the very least be differentiating the curriculum to help your son, not expecting you to just go, oh well, this is how it is!!

I found a file on CAPDsuport.org very helpful. They had a 3 page document explaining APD for his teacher, a list of accommodations (changes) that the school could make, and a summary for you to add details about your child.

Since giving that out each year, school has been much more accommodating about my DS

Petal can I ask where you got your private diagnosis from please?