Central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) or also known as auditory processing disorder (APD) is complicated complex problem that touches approximately 5% of children of school age. Such kid’s are unable to process the information they hear in the way that others do due to the fact that their brain and ears don’t coordinate in a proper way and cooperate fully. Something affects the way the brain recognizes and interprets sounds, especially the sounds of speech. Children suffering from auditory processing disorder don’t distinguish differences between sounds in words, even when they are loud and pronounced clear enough. So these children have great difficulty in understanding signal of speech.

Children with APD often have problems with:

- oral communication (they prefer written communication);
- processing information, they need much more time for this than others do;
- bad or poor listening skills, they need people to speak slowly to them;
- staying in places with background noise such as playground, sports grounds, supermarkets and other social locations;
- remembering and paying attention to information simultaneously presented in various modalities;
- remembering information presented orally, they better handle visually acquired information;
- following multi step directions that are given orally, they better handle with one direction at a time.

Kids suffering from APD experience an inability to process verbal information, they don’t process what is being said to them. They may repeat word by word but the sense of message is missing. Pupils with APD have disability processing auditory information within the brain.