Sound Therapy?? - Autism Spectrum Message Board

tinybottaut · 03-28-2004, 11:31 AM

I would like to know has anyone tried Tomatis, a sound stimulation therapy program, and/or the Mozart Effect for your child or children diagnosed with Autism? If so, is this something that you are doing at your home or are you taking your child somewhere to get these services? Is it helping??

Thank you sooo much for your response! I'm thinking of trying this for my son.

shue · 03-28-2004, 02:02 PM

Listening Therapy was just suggested to us for my daughter last week. Is that the same thing as what you are talking about?

tinybottaut · 03-30-2004, 12:02 PM

All I know is that the child listens to music or voices, I think at different frequencies, to help retrain the ears to hear things better. It also helps the child to not be so sensitive to certain sounds. I first heard about it on the Today show. This child made a tremendous recovery from the state she was in. If anyone knows anything, please respond.

haemju · 04-19-2004, 05:25 PM

I'm here....been there, done that. My daughter is 6 she had digital audio areobics (as they call it, or AIT) 2 years ago. My daughter would cry at the grocery store if someone talked over the loud speaker. If her younger siblings would cry she would freak out. I came across info about this on the internet and decided to look into it. What it involves is 2 daily sessions about 1 hour each, of a child listening to distorted sounds via head phones. These sessions had to be at least 1 hour apart so, we had a session at 9am and then returned around noon for the second session. These sessions lasted 10 days M-F with the weekend off. A hearing test was performed before the AIT started and then repeated after 10 sessions. My daughter would not allow the first hearing test to be performed but, she wasvery cooperative for the second one. Do I think that this treatment helped.........definitely. In our case it did. My daughter is no longer bothered by noises and rarely puts her hands over her ears. If this is something that still interests you let me tell you a few things. The treatment was $1300.00 and isn't covered by insurance.You need to find somone that is certified to do the treatment.Check the AIT site and you need to get your child used to wearing head phones. I played a favorite tape and we put together puzzles while listening to it. Also, once the therapy is complete, your child CAN NOT use any type of head phones. Hope this helps

tinybottaut · 04-24-2004, 09:33 PM

Thank you.

I really appreciate your information. I live in a small town and this sound therapy isn't available around here. I'm considering ordering something off of the Internet that would allow me to do this with my son at home.