Do you find it difficult to understand some spoken words? Is your child having trouble understanding and following your or his/her teacher’s instructions? Do you know someone who you have to repeat words over and over again before they could understand it?
It could be a listening problem!
French-Australian clinical psychologist and author, Françoise Nicoloff, tackles the untold reasons why this listening problem is alarmingly increasing. Watch till the end as she will share highly-valued programs and tools that could help improve listening and learning!
Hearing is our ability to perceive sounds. Listening involves the ear, the brain, the body, and even the heart at the emotional level.
- Unconscious emotional reasons – unpleasant changes or experiences (i.e. passing of a loved one, a major accident, long-term abuse, etc.)
- Immaturity of the connections between the ear, the brain, and the body – Listening is carried out by several processes of which should be fully-developed for optimal functioning
- Noise/ Sound sensitivity – Ordinary sounds like crying baby, dog barking, vacuum cleaning can disrupt listening especially for children and/or adults with special needs.
- Stressful pregnancy – At 4 1/2 months of pregnancy, the ear is finished and that’s the time we start to listen to all sounds. However, if the pregnancy is too stressful, it can have an impact on the developing baby especially on the level of listening skills.
- Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) – The inability of the brain to understand what the ears hear.
HOW WE CAN HELP | The Tomatis® Method
The Tomatis® Method is an auditory stimulation, neurosensory-integrative program that relies on its electronic Gating® system using a specific equipment named the TalksUp®. It helps retrain the brain to finally access those sounds which the brain is misunderstanding.
It aims for the brain to also benefit from neuroplasticity so the more we retrain the brain to hear properly, the more it’s going to be long-lasting. This is why we need to have prolonged stimulation for it to be effective.
As the brain learns to pay attention to sound contrasts, it can automatically train the individual to discriminate the information and sounds more correctly. Therefore, they can pay particular attention to external and new auditory events.
So when the brain can detect and process properly then the person can become a great listener, a great communicator, and a great learner!
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Françoise Nicoloff
Official Representative of Tomatis Developpement SA in Australia, Asia and South Pacific, Director of the Australian Tomatis® Method, Registered Psychologist, Certified Tomatis® Consultant Senior, Tomatis® International Trainer and Speaker, Co-author of the Listening Journey Series, 40 Years of Experience, Neurodiversity Speaker
