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This autobiography by the French physician and ear specialist whose work has had a major impact on dyslexia and other learning disorders was originally published in French (1977). The Tomatis Method, which helps develop listening and communication skills, is used in 15 different countries. Tomatis addresses his experience with some of the most difficult therapeutic and educational problems (e.g., stuttering, autism, dyslexia, balance, motor control, and integration) and shows how they are affected and controlled by the ear. His account will be welcomed by speech therapists, performing artists, educators, and psychotherapists.

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Paul Madaule re-awakens a skill that each of us has-a skill that can improve communication creativity and learning ability, allowing a fuller and more energetic life. Madaule demystifies The Tomatis Listening Method as both clinician and client. Diagnosed as dyslexic at an early age, Madaule experienced a remarkable recovery with the help of Dr. Alfred Tomatis. Since then, at the Tomatis Listening Centers in North America, Paul Madaule has helped thousands of people for over twenty years. Madaule has summarized these methods and has included a unique selection of "Earobics," daily exercises that will allow you to develop and improve your listening skills on your own. This is a book about listening at all stages of life-for parents-to-be, hard-working professionals, teachers, early childhood educators and parents seeking help for learning disabled children or difficult teenagers. When Listening Comes Alive is a guide to a healthier more holistic way of living.

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n The Mozart Effect for Children, author Don Campbell shows that music is the perfect tool to improve children's language, movement, and emotional skills at home, school, and play. He presents a wealth of dynamic, inventive ways for parents and teachers to invigorate a child's imagination with music, sounds, and songs, supplying simple exercises and fun activities tailored for each age group and stage of development, from prenatal through age ten. Campbell offers ideas and exercises both practical and profound, from special ways for parents to bond with their newborns to tips on fostering good study habits and stress reduction for elementary school students. The Mozart Effect for Children is an invaluable resource for any parent and every child, as well as for grandparents and educators. With Campbell's fascinating, informed, and compassionate guidance and with the incredible, uplifting power of tone, rhythm, and melody, you can help the child in your life aspire, achieve, and grow healthier in mind, body, and spirit.

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Stimulating, authoritative, and often lyrical, The Mozart Effect offers dramatic accounts of how doctors, musicians, and healthcare professionals use music to deal with everything form anxiety to cancer, high blood pressure, chronic pain, dyslexia, even mental illness. Students who sing or play an instrument score up to 51 points higher on SAT's than the national average. During childbirth, music can relieve expectant mother's anxiety and help release endorphins, the body's natural painkillers, dramatically decreasing the need for anesthesia. The director of a Baltimore hospital's coronary care unit says that half an hour of classical music produces the same effect as ten milligrams of Valium. And now, whatever you listening taste, Don Campbell, explains how to make The Mozart Effect work for you.

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Dr, Tomatis, a French, ear, nose and throat specialist, is one of the twentieth century pioneers in the field of sound and music therapy. The work of Tomatis brings new insights about the role of the ear in human development. Tomatis argues that poor listening originates many educational or psychological problems. By training the ear to listen better, it is possible to improve or restore normal functioning. Tomatis’ discoveries are applied successfully in the field of autism, dyslexia, attention deficit disorder, behavior problems, motor- and speech difficulties. They facilitate learning, foreign languages, improve the singing voice, sharpen communication skills, boost creativity, and maximize learning. Although Tomatis has gained international fame and his work has benefited many children and adults, there is still no comprehensive book in English that explores the many facets of his discoveries. The goal of this book is to fill this gap, and provide parents, educators, psychotherapists, and any person interested in the field of sound therapy, with new tools that can contribute to their understanding of like and to their wellness.

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After working intensively with patients young and old who have auditory processing issues due to infection, injury, birth or advancing age, Davis now contends that one form of therapy may not be sufficient for success, and instead gratifying results can be obtained in even the most dire circumstances if several methods are used in the correct combination, hence the "tree" metaphor. Davis distills her 35-plus years of experience, along with independent findings, and some scientific research of the workings of the brain and the ear, into a detailed, readable and entirely useful work. Although she notes that the book was written for the non-professional, the detailed information will be of interest to those in the healthcare community who work in the auditory, speech, balance and related fields. Davis gives the professional and layperson new insight into how sound effects the whole body; the work has a mind/body/spirit focus, but she uses facts and research, and not philosopphical rambling, to make her point. Covered here are the auditory system, sound energy, how we process sound information, and suggestions about who can be helped by which therapies.

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In addition to preserving good health, sound can also heal. The ability to process, understand, and communicate with our world is largely dependent upon a delicate combination of auditory functions. New music and sound techniques--including filtered Mozart, entrained rhythms, and resonant frequencies--can retrain the auditory system to take in a full spectrum of sound. Improved hearing can impact speech and language skills, short-term memory, stress-related conditions, and low immune function. An accompanying CD of music designed to bring an exciting extra dimension to the text. Readers will feel the effects of a variety of sounds as they learn to design their own beneficial soundscapes. About the Author; Joshua Leeds is a sound researcher and producer who has created audio programs for leading holistic practitioners, including Andrew Weil, Louise L. Hay, and Bernie Siegel. He is the cofounder of Applied Music and Sound, a psychoacoustic music company specializing in programs for health, learning, and productivity. Leeds teaches sound therapy to healthcare and education professionals throughout North America and Europe.

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Though not for the impatient, What's Going on in There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life will undoubtedly make you a better parent. It is thick, detailed, and scientific. But it is also accessible to parents who have the time and patience to immerse themselves in the latest research on brain development. And for those who do, the rewards can be great. You'll understand the inner workings of the brain like never before. You'll learn the latest thinking on the nature vs. nurture question. You'll gain invaluable insights into the evolution of the senses, motor skills, social and emotional growth, memory, language, and intelligence. But most importantly, you'll understand--maybe for the first time--exactly how great your contribution as a parent can be to the development of your young child's brain. Written by Lise Eliot, Ph.D., a neurobiologist and mother of three, What's Going on in There? is an immensely intelligent labor of love. It is based on the author's own "odyssey of discovery" as she sought answers to questions about her own role in carrying, delivering, and parenting her children.

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Healing Sounds examines the capacity of sound to affect us on all levels - physical, emotional, mental and spiritual. There is no sound as pure as that of harmonics, and Healing Sounds is the first book to explain how to benefit from their profound healing and transformative powers, from both the scientific and spiritual viewpoints. The first part of the book provides an overview of toning and harmonics as practiced, mainly for the purposes of healing, in different cultures: Mayans, Native American Shamans, among Tibetan Monks; as well as use in different esoteric traditions - e.g. Kabbalah, Sufi chanting, Gregorian chanting, etc. This is followed by an entire section on balancing chakras with sound and suggestions for your own experiments with toning.

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Within The Healing Forces of Music you will find a thorough investigation of the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual effects of music, the characteristics of healing music, and procedures for using music as a healing agent. Carefully written in an eloquent, yet easy-to-understand context, Dr. McClellan takes us into basic acoustics, the process of hearing and the vibratory nature of the human body. He presents a healing method through “cymatics” (the effect of vibration on physical matter), and also systems of healing with sound, voice and mantra, Tantric therapies and the utilization of the Endocrine Gland system and Chakra energies. Healing Forces also explores the shamanistic practices and musical cosmologies of the ancient world, the worlds of Eastern and Western classical forms, as well as contemporary resources. McClellan eloquently advocates a new philosophy of music as a transcendent experience.

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This comprehensive and reader-friendly text covers neurology in the context of basic science. Offering a practical outline format to clarify concepts, it presents clinical relationships in chapters on normal structure and function, and devotes extensive coverage to neurology-related material in the chapters on the neurological examination and neurological disorders. Important information is emphasized through the liberal use of tables, information boxes, margin notes and numerous figures, including an MRI-based atlas. Questions at the end of each chapter and a chapter on case-based problem solving exercises provide futher reinforcement and emphasis of important concepts. An extensive glossary of nearly 700 items provides convenient access to definitions and descriptions.