Performing below potential? |
- Anxious, over-emotional, depressed or tired?
- Learning Difficulty,
- Poor reading, writing, spelling or maths (dyslexia)?
- Poor memory?
- Difficulty communicating or socialising?
- Distractible, low attention / concentration, ADD?
- Difficulty sitting still, hyperactive, ADHD?
- Clumsy, poor balance or coordination?
- Could try harder or do better (discouraged learner?)
- Overloading, forgetful often with bad behaviour)?
- Sensory Processing Disorder or Autism?
- Adopted or difficulty expressing emotions?
- Have you “Lost” some performance after a head injury?
We can help by gently normalising sensory performance
Is Listening adequate?
The quality of your listening affects balance and coordination, spoken and written language, alertness, creativity, and your ability to focus. How well you listen also influences your social development, confidence and self-image. It is the critical sensory foundation in the earlier years of learning. It governs your life performance.
Listening is a process that begins before birth - from the fourth month after conception. Sound literally helps the brain and the nervous system of the foetus to grow. While there are many factors, which may undermine the development of appropriate auditory processing, the most common is a difficult birth, early ear infections or a food intolerance.
In the same way that you would visit a doctor if you became sick or an optometrist if you had trouble with vision, it is sensible to consider a listening assessment if you have difficulty sustaining auditory attention or comprehension.
How can Listening therapy help?
Listening Therapy is a gentle effective, drug-free approach to improve functioning for those with auditory and sensory processing disorders, including autism, attention deficit including ADD/ADHD, and dyslexia. It is beneficial for those wanting to improve concentration, cognitive skills related to reading, writing, and maths, or those adults wishing to lift life performance.
Those who complete a listening program also report improved focus, energy, self-confidence, mood, behaviour, maturity and decreased anxiety and stress. Listening therapy uses classical music because the brain processes language and music in a similar way. Mozart is often used because the unique structures of his compositions deliver more significant improvements in learning and performance.
Our Listening Therapy is designed to normalise attention, comprehension, processing speed, learning and communication and dynamically effect personal change. We achieve this by strengthening the neural pathways in your brain and improving the way you process and integrate sensory information. Sound can nourish and energise the brain. Our Integrated Listening programs essentially retrain the parts of the brain that allow us to learn, communicate and move.
All programs incorporate proven psycho acoustic treatment based on the pioneering work of French ear nose & throat specialist Dr Tomatis. We use sound to stimulate the nervous system and build the brain’s capacity to integrate sensory inputs like sound, vision and movement. These new connections in the brain build listening skills, facilitate social and emotional maturity, improve creativity and build reading, writing and organisation skills. More information can be found in the Research page.
Music and Learning
Music has been used to heal for thousands of years and is reflected in the writings of Pythagoras in ancient Greece. Eminent neurologist Oliver Sacks writes “The power of music to integrate and cure … is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest non-chemical medication.”
By integrating listening and movement therapy, our programs address a wide range of foundational sensory issues which support learning, maturity and life performance. As Don Campbell author of The Mozart Effect, explains, this is because, “The real power of sound is in the way the tonal or harmonics aspects influence our emotions and midbrain functions”.
Programs
Our most powerful programs are delivered in clinic at Hillside Health Centre in a child-friendly environment. Combining the benefits of Dynamic Listening and Integrated Listening therapy, visual tracking and movement is powerfully effective, enabling positive change to occur more rapidly. The program is completed in only 3-4 months, allowing children and families to experience positive changes and then move on with their lives.
A variety of portable Integrated Listening® systems (iLs) are available for outside the clinic to deliver affordable therapy for use at home, school or work. These programs are most suitable for those with moderate learning, attention or performance deficits.
They can also help children who are clumsy, poorly coordinated, over-emotional or those who disorganised or behave poorly. These programs are designed to deliver improvements in learning, sensory-motor performance, communication, concentration, memory and motivation.
Experience suggests that Listening Therapy will not help the symptoms of Tinnitus, Alzheimer’s, dementia, Tourette’s syndrome, seizure disorders, bipolar disorder or neural hearing loss. However this therapy may help auditory processing deficits related to tinnitus.