Slide explains therapeutic listening and how it helps.Developed by Occupational therapist Sheila Frick and Collen Hacker ,it is widely used in sensory integration with many therapists throughout the world.

1. THERAPEUTIC LISTENING
By: Pooja Uchil
Physiotherapist

3. Hearing
• Simply just happens
• act of perceiving the sound by the
ear
Listening
• Consciously choose to do
• Requires concentration , desire to
communicate
• Brain processes meanings from
words and sentences
• Leads to learning
• the ability to focus the ear on
certain sounds selected for
discrimination and interpretation

4.  Function of whole body
 Not just our ear
Listening skill difficulties
 Inability to accurately perceive, process and respond to sounds
 Often found to be an integral part of other
perceptual, motor, attention and learning difficulties.

5.  Developed by Occupational Therapists Sheila Frick and Colleen
Hacker
 Therapeutic Listening is an evidence-based auditory intervention
intended to support individuals who experience challenges with
sensory processing dysfunction, listening, attention, and
communication

6.  Sound training in combination with sensory integrative techniques
 Emphasize vestibular stimulation and postural movement strategies
 Allow therapists to approach the auditory and vestibular system
directly

7. Therapeutic listening uses:
 electronically altered music that has been designed to produce
specific effects on listening skills
 when the child follows a prescribed program

9.  Music causes the muscles in the middle ear to contract (discriminate
and modulate sound input)
 Tiny bones in the middle ear that vibrate when sound is
provided, stimulating the movement (vestibular) and hearing
(auditory) sensory receptors in the inner ear
 This sensory information is sent throughout the central nervous
system causing a multitude of reactions

10. Who will benefit ???

14.  2 times a day, each for 30
minutes with a minimum of
3 hours between listening
times
 The volume must be low
enough
 children usually listen to
one CD 2 weeks

16.  Decreased tactile hypersensitivity or defensiveness
 Decreased oral hypersensitivity with increased exploration
and acceptance of different foods
 Improved self-regulatory behavior such as a more regulated
sleep cycle, more regulated hunger thirst cycle, more
regulated such-swallow-breathe pattern, more regulated
respiratory control

17. • “Emergence” of motor planning
• Improved spatial-temporal organization
• Improved handwriting
• Improved visual-motor skills
• Improved timing of motor execution

18.  Increased and more elaborate social interactions, with better
“timing”
 Discrimination of the dimensionality and directionality of spatial
concepts
 Improved components of communication such as greater range of
non-verbal communication
 improved/clearer articulation, greater emotional and verbal
expression