What do our Theraupetic Listening involve?
Listening is a brain activity that extends much beyond engaging the auditory system. That is entirely optional. Active listening is dynamic and ever-changing. Listening necessitates a willingness to communicate as well as the capacity to concentrate the ear on certain sounds chosen for discrimination and interpretation. A person actively listens to and focuses attention on noises in their environment using their entire body.
Benefit from Therapeutic Listening?
Therapeutic Listening may benefit a wide variety of individuals of various ages who might exhibit:
- poor attention
- difficulties interacting with peers and limited play skills
- challenges with transitions or changes in routine
- difficulty communicating (both verbal and non-verbal)
- struggles with sleep, bowel and bladder control, and eating
- trouble following directions
- challenges perceiving and navigating space
- poor timing and sequencing of motor skills
- difficulties with irritability, mood
- difficulties with regulating their energy level (i.e. too low arousal or hyperactive)
- postural insecurity (fear of heights, playing on playground equipment)
- abnormal responses to various sensory stimuli (sounds, touch, taste, pain)
- poor praxis and motor planning: coming up with an idea, planning, and completing the task
- difficulty responding to sounds and verbal directions
Therapeutic Listening is a multifaceted sound-based method that incorporates far more than simply hearing. The auditory system, like other sensory systems, does not function in isolation. It is neurologically linked to all aspects of brain activity and hence has a wide range of impacts. Not only does how we listen to affect our whole physiology, but it also influences our behaviour.
Therapeutic Listening is a sound-based technique that is rooted on developmental and sensory integration theory. Therapeutic Listening music provides the listener with unique and carefully regulated sensory information. The music is electronically altered to emphasise the sections of the frequency range that naturally attract attention and trigger bodily movement, syncing it with the surroundings. Therapeutic Listening employs electronic alterations, as well as the ordered, rhythmical sound patterns inherent in music, to stimulate the nervous system’s self-organizing powers.