APD QUIZ 3 (SECTIONS 3 + 4) STUDY GUIDE UPDATED
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Why should we have a CAPD screening program?
Answer:
- Reduce # of inappropriate referrals for comprehensive assessment
- Help ID conditions that might require medical attention
- Increase educators' & parents' awareness of CAPD
- Early ID to minimize psychological struggle for the child
- Early intervention to improve outcomes
Question:
2. • Who should be in the CAPD team? And what is the role
of each one?
Answer:
- audiologist: does assessment, coordinates management
- SLP: defines expressive, receptive, and other communication abilities (e.g.
written language)
- Psychologist: assesses child's cognitive skills
- Social worker: may be primary liaison between family & professionals
- Parents: give information about development, medical & behavioral history, and
auditory behavior @ home
- Physician: rules out potential pathologies that might impact learning
Question:
3. • How does the verbal vs. performance IQ relate to
CAPD?
Answer:
When CAPD is suspected, difficulty is usually only seen in the tasks that rely on
auditory ability (performance ability will be better than verbal ability)
Question:
4. • What is the purpose of cognitive assessment prior to
CAPD testing?
Answer:
Checking that the deficits causing the suspected CAPD are not due to a higher
order cognitive impairment
, Question:
5. • What is the SCAN test?
Answer:
- Screening test for auditory processing disorders for English native speakers
- Takes ~20 minutes to administer
- there's an adolescent/adult version & a version for kids 3-11 years old, though kids
under 5 may struggle
Question:
6. • What is the auditory continuous performance test
(ACPT)?
Answer:
- Used for auditory attention abilities
- Client is read a string of monosyllabic words & instructed to raise thumbs
whenever the word "dog" occurs
- Impulsivity & omission errors are scored
- Performance @ the beginning is compared to performance @ the end of the
Question:
7. • What are the things covered in the CHAPS?
Answer:
- Indicates the degree of difficulty compared to age peers in a variety of
situations.
- Completed by a variety of individuals (like teachers, parents, etc)
Question:
8. • Why is it important to measure the effectiveness of the
CAPD program?
Answer:
Know if you are over- or under-referring people by looking @ the # of referrals
for screening, # of referrals for comprehensive eval, and the # confirmed as
exhibiting APD
Question:
9. What are the goals of CAPD assessment?
Answer:
- ID the presence or absence of a disorder
- ID underlying processes that may be disordered
- ID site-of-lesion or dysfunction
- Connect the disorder with academic performance and other measures
- Develop a CAPD sub-profile to give insightful intervention & educational
planning
ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Question:
1. Why should we have a CAPD screening program?
Answer:
- Reduce # of inappropriate referrals for comprehensive assessment
- Help ID conditions that might require medical attention
- Increase educators' & parents' awareness of CAPD
- Early ID to minimize psychological struggle for the child
- Early intervention to improve outcomes
Question:
2. • Who should be in the CAPD team? And what is the role
of each one?
Answer:
- audiologist: does assessment, coordinates management
- SLP: defines expressive, receptive, and other communication abilities (e.g.
written language)
- Psychologist: assesses child's cognitive skills
- Social worker: may be primary liaison between family & professionals
- Parents: give information about development, medical & behavioral history, and
auditory behavior @ home
- Physician: rules out potential pathologies that might impact learning
Question:
3. • How does the verbal vs. performance IQ relate to
CAPD?
Answer:
When CAPD is suspected, difficulty is usually only seen in the tasks that rely on
auditory ability (performance ability will be better than verbal ability)
Question:
4. • What is the purpose of cognitive assessment prior to
CAPD testing?
Answer:
Checking that the deficits causing the suspected CAPD are not due to a higher
order cognitive impairment
, Question:
5. • What is the SCAN test?
Answer:
- Screening test for auditory processing disorders for English native speakers
- Takes ~20 minutes to administer
- there's an adolescent/adult version & a version for kids 3-11 years old, though kids
under 5 may struggle
Question:
6. • What is the auditory continuous performance test
(ACPT)?
Answer:
- Used for auditory attention abilities
- Client is read a string of monosyllabic words & instructed to raise thumbs
whenever the word "dog" occurs
- Impulsivity & omission errors are scored
- Performance @ the beginning is compared to performance @ the end of the
Question:
7. • What are the things covered in the CHAPS?
Answer:
- Indicates the degree of difficulty compared to age peers in a variety of
situations.
- Completed by a variety of individuals (like teachers, parents, etc)
Question:
8. • Why is it important to measure the effectiveness of the
CAPD program?
Answer:
Know if you are over- or under-referring people by looking @ the # of referrals
for screening, # of referrals for comprehensive eval, and the # confirmed as
exhibiting APD
Question:
9. What are the goals of CAPD assessment?
Answer:
- ID the presence or absence of a disorder
- ID underlying processes that may be disordered
- ID site-of-lesion or dysfunction
- Connect the disorder with academic performance and other measures
- Develop a CAPD sub-profile to give insightful intervention & educational
planning
