Listening

Today we started something called The Listening Program with Gracie. OUr goal is to sit on my lap for 5 minutes a day with earphones on playing a special program to help enhance "auditory perception." Evidently auditory perception affects everything we do from attention and concentration to speech and eating, reading and social skills. From laying on her back so much as an infant, Gracie''s auditory perception was off balance, so to speak. People talked over her, not to her, so she learned to tune out.

This is the description from the program website:

Certain classical music, like that of Mozart, Haydn and Vivaldi, has specific structure, producing sound waves in organized patterns. Within these patterns are vital elements including time, frequency and volume. When listening to music, the ear is receiving the musical sound waves—waves that arrive in different frequencies, measured in Hertz (Hz). These frequencies stimulate the brain, and thus affect different functions of the mind and body.

The Listening Program’s psychoacoustically modified music and patent-pending production techniques are designed to stimulate, or “exercise,” the different functions of the auditory processing system. This enables the brain to better receive, process, store and utilize the valuable information provided through the varied soundscapes in our lives such as music, language and the environment in which we live.


It sounds like it would have been something good for Joy Lin when she was little, or possibly even now. When she was in kindergarden, I helped out at school alot. In circle time or other situations where the kids had to sit still ( remember this is kindergarden) she would toss her hair, or move in some way. In other words, she couldn't sit still. She is still like that. I would always ask her teachers if she paid attention properly, because it LOOKED like she didn't . THey always said she did. However, her 8 year old listening skills seem to be getting worse( at home anyway) but I guess they really know how to tune out their parents the older they get.

Well, Gracie's response was typical. She didn't like it and made it very clear to us that she didn't like it. They said this is normal and that eventually she will get used to it and not fight it. I think it will be good because it will also be a bonding time with me where she will have to sit with me. So tomorrow we have more OT and another session of the Listening Program. Maybe I should get my husband to do it. ;)