News summaries for autism therapy: listening therapy

definition of listening therapy: Type of therapy that stimulates the auditory (listening) system of the brain. Listening therapy may be helpful for children with autism who are overly sensitive to sounds. It may also be helpful for sensory integration disorder and communication disorders.

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Karen O’Connor, a long-time speech and language therapist, discovered that music therapy helped her clients with autism and other speech delays.... While her Listening Therapy Centre is only in Ireland, she would like to see music and sound therapy adopted internationally.

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Although a dentist by training, Gina felt teaching preschool was a better way to help families who had children with autism and other developmental issues such as ADHD. The center uses the Tomatis Method. Gina explains, “The Tomatis method re-trains the listening system by using electronically modified music and language to re-educate, stimulate and improve the way in which we process auditory information.” Children with learning disabilities often have difficulty in communication and social interaction, the Tomatis methods attempts to increase listening skills, communication, and memory and attention. Read more...

Georgia therapists provide a variety of interventions for children with autism. Treatments range from applied behavior analysis (ABA) to auditory therapy, which uses sound to stimulate areas of the brain. The Brain Balance approach works to integrate both sides of the child's brain using rhythm, bio nutrition, and sensory motor exercises. A Healing Place provides therapy in the way of Brain Power (BP2), an intervention that also trains both sides of the brain. 

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A mother of a child with autism in Iloilo, Philippines, found that using a gluten-free diet and casein-free diet helped her son with his other therapies for autism (occupational, speech, inclusion, ABA, and listening therapy). She used the Internet and a parent support site, www.autismpinoy.com, to help her in her research for dietary interventions.

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Synonyms for listening therapy include: auditory therapy, listening therapy, therapeutic listening, therapeutic listening program, therapeutic listening therapy
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