Autism spectrum disorders (ASD)

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Audio-Psycho-Phonology is a sensory processing therapy that stimulates listening capacity. The brain needs to perceive sounds to provide it with the stimuli to function. Autistic spectrum research suggests that people with ASD exhibit sensory dysfunction, which makes them hypersensitive or hyposensitive to certain sensory stimuli. Some people with ASD perceive sounds so acutely that their sound environment becomes overwhelming and intimidating. They perceive their environment in such a distorted way that it affects their behaviour.

Their auditory hypersensitivity can lead them to live in isolation, produce extreme behavioural reactions, and even, scream to cut out the sound.

The goal of Audio-Psycho-Phonology is to develop or restore communication by re-activating the listening function.

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Listening means opening up to the outside world, re-empowering the ear to exercise its role as an organ of communication.

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Clinical observations made over the past decades by Alfred Tomatis showed that 60% of children with ASD who had followed an auditory stimulation programme made significant progress:

• their anxiety decreased and their behaviour improved

• they could better control their emotions and obsessive behaviour

• the children were calmer, and their sleep improved

• their appetite improved

• they became more conscious of their environment

• they showed a desire to communicate, through eye contact, gestures or language.

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A person with Autism spectrum disorders hears perfectly but does not listen.

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The listening therapy can Improve the following areas:

• communication and language

• social interactions

• motor, sensory and cognitive abilities

• behavioural and emotional self-control

• somatic symptoms domain

• autonomy in daily activities

• learning

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Audio-Psycho-Phonology re-educates the ear. Its vestibular apparatus controls balance, movement and every muscle in the body without exception. On a physiological level, listening requires the mobilisation of two muscles in the middle ear which regulate the tension of the eardrum and the fluids in the inner ear, their role is to protect the ear from loud and unwanted sounds by selecting only the desired ones.

On the emotional level, the use of Mozart music or the mothers voice gradually filtered up to 8000Hz by the ‘Electronic ear’ ‘Effet Tomatis’ allows the person to relive the period of their existence intrauterine, in communion with their mother, they feel tension relief and reassurance, which creates a desire to enter into communication with the outside world.