scoliosis and auditory processing disorder?

Question

i'm a male coming to 22 and i recently got diagnosed with dextroscoliosis (24 degrees) and APD. i'm pretty normal in every other aspect (and low muscle tone~ BMI 18). but i noticed this disorder called Cerebral Palsy (which symptoms may include scoliosis and APD).

i'm not sure if i should seek diagnosis on CP and if i do, are there any useful treatment for it going around? What should i look out for?

Answer 1

CP is basically a stroke that causes brain damage and happens prior to or at birth. From my understanding, it usually has spasticity, not hypotonia. I don't think a diagnosis of CP (if you have it) would help you...because I don't think there is a treatment for it.

Answer 2

I have scoliosis (double, actually), but not central auditory processing disorder. My elder son has that. I noticed when he was very young that he had trouble in reacting to multiple directions given at one time. (Hon, please go to your room, and bring my your clothes you need washed, and, oh! bring out your paper from school, too).........anything said like that. I read and read until I decided he had central auditory processing disorder. Then, I took him to the only specialist in the area regarding that disorder. The Dr. told me that no mother had ever brought a child to him, diagnosing it, herself. I asked him to test him, anyway. He did test my son, and said that I had diagnosed it, correctly. That was in the early 70's and most people had never heard of this disorder. There was nothing about scoliosis with my son, however. My son was taught, by me, how to always write multiple tasking down, and he could do it that way. He still does. He's 39. In school, he had problems getting oral directions of what his homework was. He tried to write as fast as the teacher's spoke, but, that can be impossible for a little guy. When he got to highschool, trying to do well, he had one teacher who did not even believe such a disorder existed and was really hard on him. She said to me, "If you and your son really think that there is this thing call CAPD, then you should both be locked in a dark closet until you get over believing in it". We didn't get along well, with this teacher. This was her LAST year of teaching, and obviously believed we'd make up the disorder. The day before graduation, she called him into her class, as it was her last day teaching at all, and informed him that she had decided to give him an "F"....................this, of course, was illegal, as I had not received what we call 'cinch' notices about him being on the brink of not passing her class. So, he did graduate, but, he was NOT allowed to graduate with his class on stage. He was horribly depressed and it was totally unfair. He had earned a better grade than the "F" of course, and she was just using her POWER on her way out of teaching. She was really a horrid person. I am a teacher, and I know that was totally illegal for her to do.