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scoobydoo

hi

just wondering if anybody does Tomatis listening therapy which has been brought to my attention and if so what do you think?

many thanks

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  • Parental theories and hunches are always difficult to explain.

    However, like you I noticed my son watching my lips when I was talking to him and I wondered why. We had two audiology reports showing that he could hear and we knew that anyway because he often covered his ears around loud sounds. He was creating lots of echoalic noises so the only conclusion I could reach was that he was failing to understand our speech.

    I suspected that our speech was muffled, blurred or distorted in some way so that he could hear it but not comprehend it. He was getting more sense from our lips than from what was coming out of them.

    I will never know what specific hearing dysfunction he had but when I heard that AIT helps to tune the ears it seemed right for us.

    And it was, it took two months of him being able to hear our conversations and then he started and didn't stop repeating and repeating and repeating....

    Arrgh how we missed the silence!!! but of course it was for the best because he can now tell us what he wants.

    A word of caution, although we see similar symptoms that is no guarentee of success but it sounds like it could be worth a try.

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  • Parental theories and hunches are always difficult to explain.

    However, like you I noticed my son watching my lips when I was talking to him and I wondered why. We had two audiology reports showing that he could hear and we knew that anyway because he often covered his ears around loud sounds. He was creating lots of echoalic noises so the only conclusion I could reach was that he was failing to understand our speech.

    I suspected that our speech was muffled, blurred or distorted in some way so that he could hear it but not comprehend it. He was getting more sense from our lips than from what was coming out of them.

    I will never know what specific hearing dysfunction he had but when I heard that AIT helps to tune the ears it seemed right for us.

    And it was, it took two months of him being able to hear our conversations and then he started and didn't stop repeating and repeating and repeating....

    Arrgh how we missed the silence!!! but of course it was for the best because he can now tell us what he wants.

    A word of caution, although we see similar symptoms that is no guarentee of success but it sounds like it could be worth a try.

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