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Living with CAPD

LIVING AND WORKING WITH A CENTRAL
AUDITORY PROCESSING DISORDER (CAPD) Judith W. Paton, M. A., Audiologist
The easiest, quickest way to communicate is simply to say something and then deal with the other person's reply, right? Right, unless your listener has a CAPD (Central Auditory Processing Disorder), then your remark might come through with certain words drowned out by other noises, or with some words sounding like different words or as meaningless strings of verbiage. You might begin to suspect this when the other person's expression doesn't register understanding, or if he,"answers the wrong question," or he asks you for additional information which most people would have been able to infer from what you just said.

Music Pedagogy for the Blind

By David Goldstein
(this article was published in the International Journal of Music Education, No. 35, May 2000. Copyright of the article is vested in the International Society for Music Education.)

I am sure you are aware of people in the music world who are blind. You may even know someone with a visual problem involved in music. I run a summer Institute which brings together blind high school students from around the United States for the purpose of preparing for the serious study of music in college. As I tell you about the program and the teaching techniques we use, I hope it will start you thinking about how you might include a blind student of any age in music activities, if one should enroll in your class.

ADHD costs Americans billions $

Many vaccine injured children with minimal brain dysfunction, which includes learning disabilies, also have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder(ADHD)or attention deficit disorder (ADD).
The benefit cost analyses conducted by public health officials to come up with the "benefits"of mass vaccination never factor in the costs to society of caringfor children and adults who become chronically ill and disabled fromvaccination.
http://www.reutershealth.com/
Study: ADHD costsAmericans $77 billion in lost income
Last Updated:2004-09-10 9:13:59 -0400 (Reuters Health)
By Dena Aubin

Music Helps Movement, Mood in Parkinson's Patients

By Jim Morelli
WebMD Medical News Archives
June 20, 2000 -- Music. It does a body good. Physical therapy may help keep Parkinson's disease patients limber, but now researchers have found that music therapy may help them move faster -- and make them happier. This is the first time that music therapy's effect on Parkinson's has been objectively studied, the Italian researchers say, and their results appear in the latest issue of the journal Psychosomatic Medicine.

Shafer Autism Report

"Healing Autism: No Finer a Cause on the Planet"
January 12 & 13, 2004 Double Issue Vol. 8 Nos. 9 & 10 Bowel Virus Found In Autistic Children Who Had MMR Jab
New Wakefield study. See abstract below.
By Beezy Marsh for the Daily Mail, UK. Not available online at press time.]

Facing Old Age and a Disabled Child

At 49, Autistic Man Spends First Nights Without 'Daddy'

By Clare Ansberry for The Wall Street Journal, front page, June 3. Thanks to Veronique Lashinski.>

Pittsburgh -- One afternoon in early March, Tim Tullis, autistic and 49 years old, came home to the cramped apartment he shared with his father, only to find him gone.