Recommended programs

The Basic Music Kit is the entry-level program that is the best choice for adults and older children (though is suitable for little kids too!)

The Family Kit is ideal for children as it includes a spoken CD for them to read out loud with

Full Spectrum is an advanced kit which can further enhance your ability to communicate well after completing 300 hours on the Basic Music Kit or Family Kit

Testimonials

"I find myself able and willing to communicate with people. It is easier to smile and reciprocate love." - William A. Whiteside

"More alert, able to converse better, sharper wits." - Judith Gray

"Public speaking much improved, being more confident and relaxed around people." - Max Gray

"It has greatly increased my confidence in speaking. I call it Confidence Therapy, because confidence was the area in which I was most lacking, and I now feel like a new man!" - Jeff Johnson

"I would be at a meeting where I had to present the findings of a piece of research and all of a sudden, I would lose the thread of what I was trying to say. Also, I often had great difficulty in finding the right words. As a result of Sound Therapy these problems have eased considerably." - Dr Vera Sauran

Communication and Sound Therapy

There are many aspects to verbal communication and social interaction with others.

To communicate well on a verbal level, one must be able to:

Hear well
Translate thoughts into words with fluency
Speak well
Feel confident in themselves
Desire to make contact

Difficulties in any one of these areas restricts the subtle exchanges needed for easy conversation.

How our hearing affects our voice

When hearing is impaired, speech is also affected.

Initially, Dr Tomatis worked with singers who had lost certain frequencies in their voices. He found that the dead spots in their voices exactly matched the dead spots on their audiograms. By correcting their hearing with the Electronic Ear, he restored the missing frequencies to their voices.

Dr Tomatis discovered that the voice cannot produce a sound that we cannot hear, because self-listening is integral to voice production (this relationship has been named "The Tomatis Effect").

Therefore when hearing is impaired, the voice becomes monotone and lifeless and lacks the qualities to inspire active listening in others. As Sound Therapy repairs distortions in the listening curve, the range and quality of the voice is also enhanced.

Active listening and selective hearing

Early in his research, Dr Tomatis discovered that the results of hearing tests varied greatly depending on the subject's motivation to demonstrate a good or bad level of hearing. He discovered a voluntary, though unconscious, element to our ability to hear.

Listening means that we direct our ears to actively tune in to selected sounds. A person who cannot tune in some sounds and tune out others will be unable to follow a conversation in a noisy environment and may therefore appear standoffish or anti-social. This is sometimes called the "Cocktail Party Syndrome".

Sound Therapy re-educates the selective ability of the ear, enabling listening to become a focused, motivated response to sound.

Learn more about how Sound Therapy rehabilitates the ear.

Psychological opening

The evolution of our listening ability plays a vital role in our social and psychological development from an early age. Psychological blocks are often accompanied by a closing down of some elements of the listening process. Interruption in the development of the listening function at an early age can result in emotional withdrawal or maladjustment and may produce severe behavioural or learning problems.

As the ear is reintroduced to high frequency sound through Sound Therapy, an opening can happen simultaneously on both an auditory and psychological level. This frequently leads to the resolution of chronic emotional patterns and increases one's willingness to reach out and connect with others.

Sound Therapy also improves the efficiency of the brain in interpreting auditory information. People often notice an improved ability to express their thoughts and an increase in memory and concentration.

Listener's Stories

Jeff Johnson, Graduate Student - Buffalo, USA

"Not only has Sound Therapy enhanced my learning capabilities, but it has greatly increased my confidence in speaking.

"Being a graduate student means that you must be able to speak with authority to groups of highly intelligent people. In the past I have been too shy and self-doubting to give such presentations with any confidence. They were the most anxiety-provoking situations of my life. My hands used to shake and I would be wet with perspiration before beginning to speak.

"Not anymore.

"I carry my Sony Walkman and tapes in my briefcase, and for a time before speaking I immerse myself in the recharging sounds of the music. I find then that I am perfectly at ease before large groups, and my presentations go without a hitch.

"Sound Therapy has helped me so much with my professional life that I've given it my own special name; I call it Confidence Therapy, because confidence was the area in which I was most lacking, and I now feel like a new man!"

James Bragg - Kentucky, USA

"I have had an elusive speech problem since childhood. Sometimes the speech was fluent and easy; other times it simply would not come out. I literally could not talk. Most people were not aware of it, since I 'cleverly' disguised my problem by acting 'professorial' - thinking a lot and talking very little and slowly. All of this had a devastating effect on my personality, creating mood swings which were violent and unexpected. Resultingly, depression became an old, old friend.

"Now this is all changed. I can talk! Mood swings are very mild and no longer a problem. I truly feel that I am being myself for the first time in my life. I know who I am. Energy is greatly increased; stamina and endurance greatly improved. I sleep from two to four hours a night and awake feeling marvellous. Just call me Lazarus!"

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