Essential question:
How are children with Auditory Processing Disorders being misdiagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder?
Foundation questions:
1. What is Auditory Processing Disorder?
2. What is Attention Deficit Disorder?
3. What are the symptoms of Auditory Processing Disorder?
4. What are the symptoms of Attention Deficit Disorder?
5. What types of therapy are available for each of these disorders?

Tentative Point:
Children who have been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder should be tested for Central Auditory Processing Disorder because ADD and CAPD have similar symptoms. Many children with CAPD are misdiagnosed with ADD and are inappropriately put on drugs, such as Ritalin. The additional tests would ensure that an appropriate diagnosis has been made and would lead to better therapy for the child.

Genres:
1. Webliography – Student perspective – Peer Audience
To inform the audience about the student’s experience with research topic.

2. Poem – Child’s perspective – Peer Audience.
To inform the audience about what a child goes through because people are not well informed about CAPD.

3. Powerpoint – Parent perspective – School Board of Education Audience
To inform the Board of Education about child’s disorder and to persuade them to encourage teachers to refer children for CAPD testing when ADD is suspected.

4. Newsletter – Parent perspective – Parent Audience
To inform parents of child’s situation and the potential danger of a misdiagnosis of ADD.

5. Brochure – Fast Forward advocate perspective – Parent Audience
To educate parents about Fast Forward program and to encourage them to get their child involved in the program.

6. Letter to Parent – Clinician perspective – Parent Audience
To inform parent about their child’s performance.

Integration Technique:
I think that I am going to integrate all of the Genres into a story about a family that is dealing with a child with CAPD.

Tentative Resources:
Cacace, Anthony T.; McFarland, Dennis J. (April, 1998), Central Auditory Processing Disorder in School-Aged Children: A Critical Review, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, p. 355 (From Masterfile: EBSCO Publishing) Retrieved July 12, 2002 from the World Wide Web: http://search.epnet.com/

Friel-Patti, Sandy. (October 1999), Clinical Decision-Making in the Assessment and Intervention of Central Auditory Processing, Language, Speech, & Hearing Services in Schools, p. 345 (From Masterfile: EBSCO Publishing) Retrieved July 15, 2002 from the World Wide Web: http://search.epnet.com/

Greenwald, John. (July 1999), Retraining Your Brain, Time, p.52 (From Masterfile: EBSCO Publishing) Retrieved July 15, 2002 from the World Wide Web: http://search.epnet.com/

Hynd, George W.; Riccio, Cynthia A. (July 1994), Comorbidity of Central Auditory Processing Disorder and Attention Deficit, Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, p. 849 (From Masterfile: EBSCO Publishing) Retrieved July 15, 2002 from the World Wide Web: http://search.epnet.com/

Ince, Susan. (May 2001), What Every Parent Must Know about Attention Deficit, Family Life, p. 60 (From Masterfile: EBSCO Publishing) Retrieved July 15, 2002 from the World Wide Web: http://search.epnet.com/

Katz, Jack; Keller, Warren D.; Tillery, Kim L. (August, 2000), Effects of Methylphenidate (Ritalin) on Auditory Performance in Children with Attention and Auditory Processing Disorders, Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, p. 893 (From Masterfile: EBSCO Publishing) Retrieved July 12, 2002 from the World Wide Web: http://search.epnet.com/

Keith, Robert W. (October, 1999), Clinical Issues in Central Processing Disorders, Language, Speech, & Hearing Services in Schools, p. 339 (From Masterfile: EBSCO Publishing) Retrieved July 12, 2002 from the World Wide Web: http://search.epnet.com/

Madall, Jane R. (October 1999), Auditory Integration Training: One Clinician’s View, Language, Speech, & Hearing Services in Schools, p. 371 (From Masterfile: EBSCO Publishing) Retrieved July 15, 2002 from the World Wide Web: http://search.epnet.com/

Riccio, Cynthia A. (September, 1996), Validity of the Auditory Continuous Performance Test in Differentiating Central Processing Auditory Disorders with and without ADHD, Journal of Learning Disabilities, p. 561 (From Masterfile: EBSCO Publishing) Retrieved July 12, 2002 from the World Wide Web: http://search.epnet.com/

Thompson, Maureen. (May, 2002), Coding Options for Central Auditory Processing, ASHA Leader, p. 3 (From Masterfile: EBSCO Publishing) Retrieved July 12, 2002 from the World Wide Web: http://search.epnet.com/