Therapeutic Listening Therapeutic listening is part of an individually designed treatment program administered by our Occupational Therapists. During this treatment, the client listens to specifically designed music while involved in other therapeutic activities. The music may be filtered to activate certain harmonics for specific therapeutic purposes. Initially treatment is in the clinic, but it may become part of the child's home therapy program. The function of the ear is to feel and hear sounds and movement. It is referred to as the vestibular-cochlear system. The cochlea is the part of the ear that is our hearing sense organ, responding to minute vibrations and differences in sound waves. The vestibular portion of the ear detects movement of the head in space. It is considered the organizer of our body senses. It is our internal ear, allowing us to understand time and space from our body’s perspective. It has a strong impact on muscle tone, posture, balance, coordination, integration of the two body sides, visual spatial skills, emotional responses and motor planning. The vestibular-cochlear system is the first to develop in utero and provides the foundation for both time and space organization of all other sensory systems. Therapeutic Listening treatment stimulates and exercises the vestibular- cochlear system. It is designed to enhance the accuracy of the sensory information sent from the vestibular-cochlear system of the ear to it’s multiple connections throughout the nervous system The listening programs are adapted from the works of Alfred Tomatis, Ph D., Guy Berard, Ph.D., and Ingo Steinbach, Ph.D., and were integrated into a Sensory Processing model by Sheila Frick, OTR. Information adapted by Teri Allen, OTR from the course : “Listening With the Whole Body” by S. Frick, OTR and C. Hacker |
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