Overview
The Listening ProgramŽ is a music listening therapy designed to improve listening, learning and other areas.
Does your child find it difficult to concentrate in the classroom or find reading, writing and retaining information a challenge?
Perhaps they have already had a hearing test and found to have normal hearing?
Many children with underpinning auditory and sensory processing issues have challenges in the following areas:
- Needing to have directions or information
repeated
- Poor auditory sequential memory
- Disrupted sleep patterns and emotional
problems
- Misunderstanding spoken information,
directions or questions
- Challenges listening in background noise
- Finding some sounds uncomfortable or painful
- Trouble with auditory discrimination skills
- Difficulties with math concepts
- Poor balance, coordination and motor skills
- Continence problems
- Poor concentration and attention skills
The Listening Program can help development in all these areas and can lead to dramatic improvements in the home and at school.
Extending the Power of Music through Psychoacoustic Treatments
So the question becomes...how can we overcome auditory and sensory processing challenges—moving from a “disorganised” to an “organised” system?
Certain classical music, like that of Mozart, Haydn and Vivaldi, has specific structure, producing sound waves in organised patterns. Within these patterns are vital elements including time, frequency and volume. When listening to music, the ear is receiving the musical sound waves—waves that arrive in different frequencies, measured in Hertz (Hz). These frequencies stimulate the brain, and thus affect different functions of the mind and body. Low frequency sound is also known to activate areas of the vestibular system; important for balance, coordination and the integration of all the senses.
The Listening Program’s psychoacoustically modified music and patent-pending techniques are designed to stimulate, or “exercise,” the different functions of the auditory processing system. This enables the brain to process sensory information from outside and inside the body in a more effective way.
Specific Frequencies for Specific Functions
The Listening Program combines decades of clinical research in several fields, including neurology, physiology, psychoacoustics, auditory processing, music theory and more. The method builds on the work of respected leaders in these fields, such as ear, nose and throat (ENT) physician Alfred A. Tomatis, M.D. (1920-2001). Among other discoveries, Dr. Tomatis helped identify the relationship between certain sound frequencies and their effect on functions of the mind and body. A simplified explanation of Dr. Tomatis’ findings shows that certain bands, or zones, of sound frequencies affect different abilities:
By systematically working through all the frequency ranges TLP is able to help the ear and brain to improve processing in all these areas.
Benefits of TLP
The Listening Program is an effective and affordable method that simply requires listening through headphones for 15 – 30 minutes per day, 5 days a week. No active involvement is required in the process and children may wish to engage in other activities such as drawing or arts and crafts whilst listening.
Listening can lead to improvements in many areas including:
- Language skills – speaking and listening
- Balance and coordination
- Reading, writing, spelling and memory
- Behaviour and social skills
- Emotional stability and self-esteem
- Concentration and attention
Improvements are also seen in such areas as sleep patterns, continence, sports and others.
Please feel free to contact us to discuss how TLP may be able to help your child or students.
For detailed case studies and published research please see
www.advancedbrain.com for more details.
Listening Options
iListen
iListen features The Listening Program
® (TLP) Level One on an iPod produced with uncompressed, copy protected audio specifically for the iPod. iListen comes preloaded with
TLP Level One and a library of music from the
Sound Health® collection. Also includes an educational guidebook, and portable carrying wallet.
There are three iListen TLP Level One Options:
- iListen TLP Level One Premium
- iListen TLP Level One Nature
- iListen TLP Level One
CD Kit
The Level One CD Kit includes; ten (10) 60-minute CDs, educational guidebook, and portable carrying wallet.
There are two TLP Level One CD Kit Options:
- TLP Level One Nature
- TLP Level One
ABT Bone Conduction System
The ABT Bone Conduction Audio System combined with TLP Level One provides an engaging experience to integrate the whole body and brain in the listening process. This multi-sensory approach accelerates and expands the benefits of The Listening Program. Bone conduction is portable and affordable and offers the convenience of home or school based listening.
Bone conduction presents the music simultaneously through two different sound conduction
pathways, air and bone. It provides a direct, clear transmission of sound to the cochlea and
vestibular systems in the inner ear, adding subtle vibration of the skin and skeletal system.
Listeners have the option to incorporate the ABT Bone Conduction Audio System™ with their
iListen or CD Kit. There are four options available:
- iListen TLP Level One Premium Bone Conduction
- iListen TLP Level One Nature Bone Conduction
- iListen TLP Level One Bone Conduction
- ABT Bone Conduction System
