Learning, Studying and Sound Therapy

Efficient learning depends on integration of all sensory input - auditory, visual and tactile - in a part of the brain called the cerebellum.

Sound Therapy improves cerebellar integration, and this improves the speed and efficiency of the brain for comprehending, sorting and remembering data. Sound Therapy also improves short term memory, spelling, language fluency and concentration.

Learning difficulties

In order to be able to read and write, we must be able to accurately hear all the sounds that make up words, identify them quickly and perceive them in the right order. This is called auditory processing.

A wide range of learning difficulties relate to poor auditory processing. These include:

• dyslexia,
• poor short term memory,
• poor concentration, and
• difficulty speaking, spelling, pronouncing words, or expressing or understanding concepts.

Learning difficulties and ear infections

Learning difficulties can often be the result of a history of childhood ear infections.

When the ears are infected, the middle ear is filled with fluid. This prevents the middle ear muscles from working properly, and as a result, they lose their muscle tone.

Interruption in the development of the listening function at an early age can result in emotional withdrawal or maladjustment and may produce severe learning or behavioural problems. Because listening is the foundation of so much of our learning, it is vitally important to support our children's development in this area before they reach school age.

In the same way that going to the gym to exercise tones your muscles, Sound Therapy can tone the middle ear muscles and restore their proper function. The use of Dr Tomatis' Electonic Ear in producing the music on the Sound Therapy CDs strengthens the ear muscles by presenting music and other sounds in such a way that forces the ear muscles to react.

Learning Languages

Sound Therapy improves our auditory processing and therefore all our language abilities by making listening easy. Listening is the most basic element of communication and is a pre-requisite for other skills such as speaking, reading, and writing.

Accelerate your child's potential

Sound Therapy is recommended for all children - including highly gifted children - as it will assist the development of good learning and study abilities, just as exercise helps to develop balance, strength and muscular co-ordination.

The ear and the auditory cortex are vitally important centres for learning, communication and higher brain function. Sound Therapy is an easy way to input a very positive stimulus that will help to maximize your child's potential.

Today, children need extra support to develop their auditory function because they are affected by many detrimental environmental factors:

• The world is noisier than ever, so children's ears are bombarded with a lot of loud and damaging sounds before they have fully developed.
• Environmental toxins also lead to poor immunity, infections and sensitivities which impact on many children's development.

Sound Therapy is the perfect brain training program to complement good nutrition, good education and a loving environment. The complex rhythms and harmonies of classical music train the brain to think conceptually and improve intelligence. This effect is augmented by the special filtering used in the recordings.

Adult learning made easier

Sound Therapy helps adults who are returning to study by:

• improving concentration and memory,
• reducing stress, and
• stimulating the brain to function as efficiently as possible.

Music can stimulate pathways in the brain, enabling information to pass more easily. Students have used Sound Therapy throughout their study and found it makes an enormous difference to their ability and their results.

Numerous adults suffer from learning difficulties which may or may not have been identified in their school years. Others may have developed problems later in life due to stress, poor diet, brain injury or environmental factors. In either case, there is a good chance that Sound Therapy will help.