Listening therapy does not appear to help children with autism learn language.
This study was designed to see if the Tomatis version of listening therapy could help the language of children with autism. The study looked at ability to speak as well as ability to understand. The authors did not find a difference between those children who received listening therapy and those who received a placebo. The study had only 11 children and the children had different levels of language. Therefore, the authors were not able to tell if maybe listening therapy works better for children who have more or less language.
Dr. Gerritsen of San Felipe del Agua, Mexico wrote a letter in response to the study. In the letter she described errors in the research. Dr. Corbett answered that indeed the study was small, but the data from the study suggest that there is no reason to spend more money researching the effect of the Tomatis method.
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