Sound Therapy Systems

Using Music-Based Auditory Stimulation^TM to enhance learning and listening in our children with special needs

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History of Auditory Training

Dr. Tomatis, a French ear, nose and throat specialist, spent his career studying the role of the ear and its connection with the brain. His extensive research showed how good listening can positively influence our health and well-being, and how poor listening can adversely affect it. He found that when the ears don't perceive all the frequencies of sound, the voice will not contain those frequencies either.

But the ear, he believed, was responsible for more than just taking in sounds. The ears relay all sensory information to the brain, the ears control the muscles of the eyes. The ears even charge our brains!

The foundation for auditory training is patterned after the way a fetus hears sounds in-utero. As the mother speaks, only the high frequencies in her voice are rapidly channeled through her skeletal system to the fetus. This is hearing through bone conduction. It is the only way a fetus can hear its mother’s voice. The high frequencies carry consonants such as (f/s/p/t/) and consonant blends such as (sh/th/ch/). Being able to hear these high-frequency sounds, in essence, wires the fetus for language and prepares it to hear and attach meaning to language outside the womb, when it is born.

If you or your child has a lot of sensory issues and hypersensitivities to sound, our bone conduction system will help to desensitize your body and take you back to that earliest phase of listening to lay down new neural connections. (See Bone Conduction page)

Hearing vs Listening

Hearing and listening are totally different processes. Hearing is a passive process just having the sounds taken in by the ear. Listening, however, is an active process and involves the brain to interpret and understand what is being heard. One can hear perfectly (ie: have a normal hearing test by an audiologist) but still be a poor listener.

How Does Auditory Training Work

By exercising the tiny muscles in the ears using various frequencies of Mozart music, the ear muscles are forced to stretch and relax - that is how they are strengthened. Strengthening these muscles makes it possible for them to become better filters. When the ears filter sounds efficiently and effectively, the body can modulate itself better and not become over-stimulated or overwhelmed with unnecessary sounds. Many children with autism and ADD/ADHD don't have effective filtering mechanisms and tend to take in every sound they hear with their bones (they listen too much through bone conduction!). As a result, they receive a barrage of un-filtered sounds that go straight to the brain, by-passing being processed by the inner ear (ie: the middle ear muscles can't do their job of filtering properly because they are not toned up). These un-filtered sounds are often painful and/or distracting (leaving a child holding his ears or render him hyper chasing every sound he hears). These children are often frustrated and full of anxiety and aggression that can promote learning disabilities or shut-down mode because it is just too hard to function this way. Correcting for these listening disabilities creates a calmer, more organized listener who is able to learn, concentrate and be more on task.

WHEN YOU LISTEN BETTER, YOU LEARN BETTER!