CAPD Treatment Experts
Evidence-Based CAPD Management: Built on decades of clinical research and data, Able Kids Foundation’s treatment program gives children and adults with CAPD the tools to manage their auditory environment, not be managed by it.
Families from all 50 states and 32 countries have turned to Able Kids Foundation for CAPD care. Our recommendations are grounded in evidence and research, and may include compensatory strategies, passive ear filters, and FM systems. The goal is simple: help each person understand what they hear, concentrate more easily, and feel less overwhelmed and exhausted in everyday life.
Compensatory Management
Compensatory management is beneficial, and often essential, for people with central auditory processing disorder. Recommendations for home, school, work, and social settings may include preferential seating, quiet work environments, written directions, sound-attenuating headphones or earplugs for concentration and quiet breaks, and advance notice of schedule changes. For students, these accommodations can be written into a Section 504 Plan or an Individualized Education Program (IEP).
Passive Filter Management
A measurable difference. CAPD isn’t a hearing problem. It’s a timing problem. The passive filter corrects the asynchrony in inefficient central auditory nervous systems. Worn in one ear, the filter helps the brain process what it hears more efficiently. It doesn’t block sound or reduce hearing.
Backed by decades of research. The filter’s benefits were discovered more than 35 years ago at Colorado State University. Researchers discovered that a properly fitted filter significantly improves speech understanding for people with CAPD. In their study, scores rose from 64% to over 80%.
Proven with our clients. In a Foundation review of 1,000 clients diagnosed with CAPD, speech understanding in background noise increased 60% to 86% with the filter.
Works everywhere, all day. Listening therapies can build skills, but there is a lack of research showing they address the underlying asynchony in challenged CANS. The filter can be worn all day.
The result? Improved understanding, better focus, and less exhaustion at the end of the day.
FM System
FM systems are most commonly used in academic environments, allowing students to receive instruction on a more on-on-one basis. FM systems have been particularly helpful for college students attending classes in large lecture halls. Individualized and speaker FM systems have been recommended and used successfully for the management of CAPD for over forty years.
The Spoon Theory
The Spoon Theory helps to convey why CAPD can be exhausting and why even routine activities are challenging at the end of the day. Some students may struggle with homework or forego activities after school because they do not have the energy to participate. Adults may not engage in activities with friends or family or be able to complete simple tasks. With appropriate management of their CAPD, individuals can "conserve" their spoons during the day.
Client Testimonial
“I don’t know how to thank you for everything. My daughter received her filter and it fits perfectly. She doesn’t even feel it. She noticed a difference immediately. It was so significant she started crying. She said she could hear us talking and that it was clear – very, very clear. She wears it from the time she gets up to the time she goes to sleep. She is taking very good care of it because she says it has changed everything. I can see a difference as well. She is more confident and able to participate in conversations. Her GPA went from a 2.0 to a 3.749 – enough to make it on honor roll. Thank you!”
Children and adults with CAPD deserve to have equal access to the auditory information in their daily environments.
We would never tell a blind student to go home every day and try harder to read a book, just as we should not tell an individual with central auditory processing disorder to try harder to listen and focus during their day.
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