Tomatis 2008 News Classic cures for children 332 mots 9 août 2006 Whitehorse Leader 119 Anglais Copyright 2006 News Ltd. All Rights Reserved MUSIC is good for the soul and may also be capable of treating a range of childhood behavioural difficulties, including attention deficit disorder and learning difficulties. Martha Mack, psychologist and director of Victoria's Listen and Learn Centre, teaches the Tomatis Method, a sophisticated sound therapy that works by retraining the ear with a device called the electronic ear, designed by Dr Alfred Tomatis, a French ear, nose and throat physician. Dr Tomatis believed that a person needs to be able to hear the full spectrum of sound frequencies to process and understand information correctly. If any of the sound frequencies are blocked or hindered, children are at a distinct disadvantage when it comes to learning. "If there is a problem, then the fast information is not going to be analysed effectively," Ms Mack said. "So what you end up seeing is the symptom where the child needs to have information repeated or may miss the information altogether." The Listen and Learn Centre offers a complex listening test to establish whether a child has an auditory processing disorder. "After doing the listening test, we can target the area or the range of frequencies that the child is having troubles with. So by giving the child a full range of sounds via music and the voice, it teaches the ear to analyse and decode and improve. It's like going to the gym for your ears." The music of Mozart and in particular his early symphonies have proven to be the most effective because of the wide range of frequencies in his music. "My clients start from the age of three. I see so many children with communication disorders, autism, learning difficulties and dyslexia. The level of improvement that happens in them is remarkable," Ms Mack said. "We see less repetition of instructions, an improvement in following directions, better conversation skills and memory. Overall learning improves reading, speed and sequencing of thoughts."
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