We provide the TLTS Listening Test as well as At-Home Training with the Tomatis TalksUp® device. Tomatis is used to improve listening, learning, sensory integration, emotional regulation, motor skills and coordination, reading and reading comprehension, language and voice. The At-Home Training typically consists of 2-3 rounds of 14 consecutive days using the Tomatis TalksUp® device. We can provide auditory training with or without administration of the TLTS Listening Test. We can generally work with you no matter where you are physically located in the world.
The ear is the most powerful sensory integrator of the human body. More than 80% of the stimulation our brain receives comes from our ear. That is why many training programs use the ear as a pathway. Dr Tomatis believed that the ear’s primary function is to provide energy to the entire nervous system. Not only does the ear play a major role in the cerebral stimulation of the brain, it has a positive action on the cerebral plasticity of the brain. This explains how the Ear interacts in many fields of application.
The Tomatis® Method is a complementary training tool which makes it possible to accelerate results, and thus significantly reducing the duration or any training or therapeutic plan. It can be used at any age (children, adults or seniors) and it can be used for one’s personal development to help alleviate the symptoms of most difficulties.
For example:
Emotional Regulation – When emotions are overwhelming, as in the case of “emotional shock,” the brain may trigger a protective mechanism, which can compromise the information we receive sensorially. This may be the case for people facing major life reorganization, increased home or work responsibilities, social pressure, or other major life challenges.
The Tomatis® Method uses the inner ear as a pathway to brain systems responsible for regulating emotion, memory, and learning. In this way, it can help improve mood and stress regulation. I use Tomatis as a complement to Neurofeedback using a person’s TLT listening profile as a guide to indicate the psychoacoustic disruption component of a person’s emotional challenges.
Attention – One aspect of attention is the ability to be able to switch / divide one’s attention between multiple sources of information or tasks. Task switching is very expensive cognitively. When it is weak or fails, it can be a source of difficulty and considerable suffering for the child in a school, an adult at work, or a senior with managing living independently.
In addition to Tomatis® Method’s general action of cerebral stimulation (known as cortical arousal), it can have a very positive effect on selective attention. It does so with the electronic Gating® system that causes a sound contrast, the effect of which constantly and naturally surprises the brain which helps the brain develop automatic change detection mechanisms. Once these mechanisms are assimilated, the individual can more easily select relevant information and decide to reject or discriminate side events.
Language – Phonological awareness is essential to language learning and there’s a way to make the process or learning new phonemes more efficient. By training the brain through air and bone conduction, the Tomatis® Method promotes enhanced perception of the fundamental sounds of language, which solidifies the foundation to accelerate language learning whether the individual is a child learning a first language or an adult learning an additional language.
In the case of speech or language difficulties, the Tomatis® Method facilitates the decoding of sounds and improves speech fluency, which can be invaluable support to traditional speech therapy.
Learning is the accumulation of knowledge by instruction or study – much of which is received auditorily and secondarily through reading. Whether we learn from imitation, repetition, creativity, failure, or reward, the brain incorporates new information by changing and refining itself to work more efficiently.
The brain has an innate ability to adapt when provided new information to become more accurate, more efficient, and more fluid. For individuals with learning difficulties or differences unrelated to intelligence, the Tomatis® Method establishes compensatory pathways in the brain that circumvent any existing challenges, improving function in a variety of ways.
Reading comprehension utilizes skills of language processing and switching attention on meaning of language. By improving efficiency and speed of language processing, reading comprehension is supported.
Voice – The ability to communicate using one’s voice depends on accurate perception and analysis of sound. Good verbalization requires good self-listening: listening to one’s own voice to assess its quality, intensity, and accuracy. Receiving Tomatis Method training is very useful for individuals who are in speech therapy; individuals who wish to become better at communicating verbally which will facilitate becoming more comfortable speaking up in social situations or at school; individuals who wish to give better speeches; or individuals who wish to improve their singing performance.