The Listening Program was designed by an unprecedented cross disciplinary team of professionals in neurology, psychiatry,
neurodevelopment, education, speech pathology, psychoacoustics, music and sound engineering.
Listening to the CDs in The Listening Program literally
exercises and tones the tiny muscles on the ear and helps build stronger multi-sensory pathways in the brain.
While listening to The Listening Program, the brain receives specific auditory stimulation, and its ability to process
sound improves. The Listening Program is unqiue in this respect.
The Listening Program and Tomatis Method
The Listening Program has a long history. Over forty years ago, a French ear surgeon, Dr. Alfred Tomatis, made a series
of ground breaking discoveries about the role of the ear and hearing in brain development and organization. We know now
that, before birth, the human brain’s first sensory experiences are the rich sounds inside the womb.
The Listening Program was developed based on Tomatis' theories and his Tomatis Method.
The Listening Program and Tomatis Method
Tomatis showed that our auditory nerve is
fundamental to human neurology. It helps to regulate not only balance and spatial orientation, but also vision and
our tactile senses. He also discovered that sound is a “nutrient” that can stimulate and feed the brain. One of
his greatest innovations was to find new ways to stimulate the ear and brain that can improve hearing and behavior.
The Listening Program uses these principles as auditory processing therapy.
The Listening Program and Tomatis Method
The Listening Program builds on the work of Dr. Tomatis using state-of-the-art technology to treat classical music on CDs for auditory
re-education. The treatments on The Listening Program music if fascinating. A few of the techniques used by The
Listening Program include removing either low or high frequencies, and audio bursting with sudden burst of sound.
Each of these techniques with The Listening Program creates
a different, desired responses in the ear and consequently in the brain.
The Listening Program The Future of The Listening Program
The principles behind The Listening Program are scientific. The music on the CDs in The Listening Program was
specially performed by San
Francisco’s Arcangelos Chamber Ensemble and recorded to exacting specifications. Nevertheless, The Listening Program
is affordable
and can be used at home. The Listening Program puts the profound benefits of advanced auditory stimulation within
the reach of countless people who could never have benefited from it before.
The Listening Program
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The Listening Program was designed by an unprecedented cross disciplinary team of professionals in neurology, psychiatry,
neurodevelopment, education, speech pathology, psychoacoustics, music and sound engineering.
Listening to the CDs in The Listening Program literally
exercises and tones the tiny muscles on the ear and helps build stronger multi-sensory pathways in the brain.
While listening to The Listening Program, the brain receives specific auditory stimulation, and its ability to process
sound improves. The Listening Program is unqiue in this respect.
