The Tomatis method is the result more than forty 'years of study and experimentation of' French otolaryngologist, Alfred Tomatis. The researcher focused his attention on the problems of hearing and audiological and psycholinguistic implications that this entails. The hearing is not only one of the five senses, but it is the "ultimate effect" that has allowed man to speak, to refine and differentiate the language.
Tomatis through its therapeutic methodology, the audiopsicofonologia, has developed a special technique of auditory stimulation seeking to re-educate the ear to listen. Anyone can hear, but listening is a special skill and is the key learning language and even personal identity. So it was that the French doctor shifted his attention to children with learning difficulties and autism, convinced that we must be able to speak before listening.
For years, the Tomatis method has proved highly effective in the treatment of learning disabilities in school-age children, most recently at the Toronto Centre of audiological results were evaluated following treatment audiopsicofonologico about 400 children and from which were obtained following improvements:
87% improvement in the attitude toward the school associated with an increased motivation to learn;
90% improvement in academic performance;
85% improvement in ability to read and understand and the relationship with family and friends;
86% improvement in attention.
After six months of treatment in 83% of the children the results have proved to be stable or improving.
His method is practiced in over 250 treatment centers in Europe and America where, during the listening sessions hearing of children and adolescents will be re-educated listening to music of Mozart, Gregorian Chant and the mother's voice filtered through details that are transmitted devices that allow only hear the higher frequencies. As it is these that provide energy to the brain and how the Tomatis claims 80 % Of the energy needs of the brain is processed in the inner ear and this energy is directly related to intelligence.
A study in this regard revealed that listening to Mozart for ten minutes may temporarily increase the IQ of nine points. Tomatis has found that when the brain is properly charged by high frequency sounds, you have a net capacity to learn, concentrate, solve a problem, organize and work for long periods of time without feeling tired. The Tomatis training stimulates the ear so that it works at its best, improving the learning potential.
In patients with difficulty learning or attention deficit, it is often the hall (part of the ear involved in the treatment audiopsicofonologico) one of the sources of the problem. The ear is not fully able to absorb, organize and manage thousands of pieces of information that the noise coming from the surrounding environment (eg the teacher's voice). In most cases a child with learning difficulties may have a vestibular problem, is demonstrated by the tendency to stumble or hit things, to appear clumsy or uncoordinated.
To guard against this seemingly chaotic bombardment of sensory stimuli, these children may go to isolate themselves from the turn in on themselves. The irony of ADD (attention deficit syndrome) is that those who are suffering, people are extremely careful that their problem is not able to select, classify and organize information and do not have barriers that can protect indiscriminate influx of sounds.
Many learning problems it can be traced back to problems of hearing loss. The Tomatis Method are achieved excellent results in cases of difficulties in learning and concentration, attention deficit disorder and dyslexia.
Dott.Brambatti Paola
Clinical Educator
technique perfected in Audiopsicofonologia
Tomatis through its therapeutic methodology, the audiopsicofonologia, has developed a special technique of auditory stimulation seeking to re-educate the ear to listen. Anyone can hear, but listening is a special skill and is the key learning language and even personal identity. So it was that the French doctor shifted his attention to children with learning difficulties and autism, convinced that we must be able to speak before listening.
For years, the Tomatis method has proved highly effective in the treatment of learning disabilities in school-age children, most recently at the Toronto Centre of audiological results were evaluated following treatment audiopsicofonologico about 400 children and from which were obtained following improvements:
87% improvement in the attitude toward the school associated with an increased motivation to learn;
90% improvement in academic performance;
85% improvement in ability to read and understand and the relationship with family and friends;
86% improvement in attention.
After six months of treatment in 83% of the children the results have proved to be stable or improving.
His method is practiced in over 250 treatment centers in Europe and America where, during the listening sessions hearing of children and adolescents will be re-educated listening to music of Mozart, Gregorian Chant and the mother's voice filtered through details that are transmitted devices that allow only hear the higher frequencies. As it is these that provide energy to the brain and how the Tomatis claims 80 % Of the energy needs of the brain is processed in the inner ear and this energy is directly related to intelligence.
A study in this regard revealed that listening to Mozart for ten minutes may temporarily increase the IQ of nine points. Tomatis has found that when the brain is properly charged by high frequency sounds, you have a net capacity to learn, concentrate, solve a problem, organize and work for long periods of time without feeling tired. The Tomatis training stimulates the ear so that it works at its best, improving the learning potential.
In patients with difficulty learning or attention deficit, it is often the hall (part of the ear involved in the treatment audiopsicofonologico) one of the sources of the problem. The ear is not fully able to absorb, organize and manage thousands of pieces of information that the noise coming from the surrounding environment (eg the teacher's voice). In most cases a child with learning difficulties may have a vestibular problem, is demonstrated by the tendency to stumble or hit things, to appear clumsy or uncoordinated.
To guard against this seemingly chaotic bombardment of sensory stimuli, these children may go to isolate themselves from the turn in on themselves. The irony of ADD (attention deficit syndrome) is that those who are suffering, people are extremely careful that their problem is not able to select, classify and organize information and do not have barriers that can protect indiscriminate influx of sounds.
Many learning problems it can be traced back to problems of hearing loss. The Tomatis Method are achieved excellent results in cases of difficulties in learning and concentration, attention deficit disorder and dyslexia.
Dott.Brambatti Paola
Clinical Educator
technique perfected in Audiopsicofonologia
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