(Even adults can benefit from re-training their ears to listen)

Many people with autism and ADD/ADHD don’t have effective filtering mechanisms and tend to take in every sound they hear. Their bodies take in sounds before their ears do. We listen with both our ears and our bones. But people with autism, ADD/ADHD listen too much with their bones. The ears should be the first entrance of sound, not the body. 

As a result of listening too much with their bodies first, they receive a barrage of unfiltered sounds that go straight to the brain by-passing being processed by the inner ear. This can be painful and/or distracting to them.  It can be overwhelming not to be able to screen out bombarding information that they receive constantly all day long. Subsequently they often shut down because it’s just too hard to react to every stimuli, every piece of incoming information. They can’t function properly. They often feel embarrassed because they can’t keep up, whether it’s listening to a teacher in class or to a boss in a meeting, whether it’s trying to remember where you put your car keys, what you came to the grocery store for or why you have difficulty packing a rather simple suitcase – they find they can’t focus, organize their thoughts or perform as they’d like.  Consequently, these people are often frustrated, full of anxiety and aggression that can promote learning disabilities, trouble at work, trouble in relationships and the like. It can be exhausting and draining. This isn’t a good way to live.

When you tune out and don’t listen properly whether it’s tuning out to an overbearing boss or nagging spouse, you don’t just tune out to their voices, you start to tune out to that whole frequency range. Over time, these frequencies become more difficult to pay attention to and you lose them from your hearing. You then must re-train your ears and your brain to attend to these lost frequencies. They don’t just come back. You have to train them to work well again. It’s just like exercising or lifting weights. If you slouch off and become unfit, you have to spend more time exercising and getting your body back in shape. That’s the same idea behind auditory training. Sound Therapy Systems re-trains the middle ear muscles which tend to become "flabby" when they aren’t working properly and we help you get them in shape.

By exercising the ear muscles with various frequencies of music, particularly Mozart, the ear muscles are forced to stretch and relax. That is how they are strengthened. Strengthening the ear muscles makes it possible for the ears to become better filters. When the ears filter sounds efficiently and effectively, the body can modulate itself better and not be over-stimulated or overwhelmed with unnecessary sounds.  The listener can then focus better, pay attention better, have a better working memory and be more relaxed and feel more comfortable about themselves. They are more organized and on task.

When you listen better you learn better & function better!