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The Davis Model of Sound Intervention: Combining Sound and Science for Positive Change
Dorinne Davis, MA, CCC-A, FAAA, RCTC, BARA The Davis Center, Succasunna, NJ www.thedaviscenter.com
The Davis Model of Sound Intervention® Uses the power of sound to enhance the Voice-Ear-Brain Connection to make positive changes in learning, development, and wellness with specific sound-based therapies.
What is sound-based therapy?
Sound-based therapy uses sound vibration with special equipment, modified music, and/or specific tones/beats, the need for which is identified with appropriate testing.
Sound-based therapy goes beyond hearing, beyond auditory processing, and beyond music. Sound-based therapy utilizes the energy of the person and supports change with the person’s natural form and function by repatterning this energy.
Discussion of terms:
Sound Healing: Using tones, mantras, various rhythms and sound patterns, and other sounding techniques to support change with the body’s energy patterns Sound Therapy: Using specific notes of the musical scales to make change with the body’s energy patterns usually with a sounding source Sound-based therapy: already defined Music: The Artwork of Sound Music Therapy: Using the Artwork of Sound to make change with emotional, behavioral, and physiological body responses
Additional Terms:
1.Hearing is the physical act of utilizing the ear to receive sound 2.Listening involves using the brain in conjunction with the physical act of receiving sound. (Involves a mental process) 3.Perception is how the brain receives and uses sound
Names of Sound-based Therapies:
Auditory Integration Training The Tomatis® Method BioAcoustics™ The Listening Program® EnListen® Samonas® Fast ForWord® Interactive Metronome®
All sound therapies are not the same!
Any sound therapy can make change. It is the correct order of the administration of sound therapies that can make the greatest impact. The order is identified from testing.
How does Sound Therapy help learning and development?
The origins of sound therapy come from the work of Dr. Alfred Tomatis The concepts are based on the connection between the voice, the ear, and the brain Sound therapy supports the natural biological development of the child.
How Does Sound Impact Us?
We hear sound through our ears, our skin, our bones, our sense of touch, and our cells It affects our physical wellbeing, emotions, and response to the world around us We must hear sound correctly in order to process what is being said
Sound Responses: The Positive Impact of Sound
Calming and relaxing Uplifting Brings into focus Creates awareness of world Motivates Enhances responsiveness
Negative Impact of Sound
Wants to be isolated when too much sound Avoids noisy situations Has difficulty listening in background noise Avoids talking to others or hogs the conversation Appears over anxious
Negative Impact on the Special Needs Child
Will cover ears Will turn TV volume up Has fear of sound (phobia) Will tune out the world Dislikes background noise Will react sometimes and not others May act “deaf”
Auditory Deprivation
The body does not receive the necessary stimulation to enhance the connective networks between the ear, the brain, and/or the rest of the body.
Misperception of Sound
Hypersensitivity to sound Stilted learning Disconnected speech Difficulty listening in background noise Auditory processing timing lag Weak auditory discrimination skills
Misperceptions Continued
Localization of sound Emotional Instability Attention and focusing weaknesses Vestibular and balance disorders Health and well-being issues
The Davis Model of Sound Intervention® Uses the power of sound to enhance the Voice-Ear-Brain Connection so that the body can begin to function from a more normalized foundation.
The concepts behind the model
•
3 key points:
There are 5 laws which connect the voice, the ear, and the brain. Summarized, the voice produces what the ear hears, and the ear emits the same stressed frequencies as the voice. If one is modified, the other changes and the brain sends the correcting response to the body. These laws are known as The Tomatis Effect and The Davis Addendum® to the Tomatis Effect.
Combined, these laws are known as The Voice-Ear-Brain Connection:
The subtle biological, biochemical, whole body inter-relationship of how the voice reflects and impacts what the ear hears and processes, and what the brain perceives, interprets, and relays to the body.
2.
Every cell in the body emits and takes in sound frequencies, thereby portraying the body as one’s “Signature Symphony of Sound®”. If there is an ‘out of tune’ frequency, the ‘instruments (cells)’ of the body are not supporting the symphony and the music is discordant. The ‘out of tune’ frequencies are identified. The sound is introduced to the body and the brain then introduces the correct frequency to the cell to ‘tune it up’.
It is not just the incoming sound that we receive by hearing or listening that is important. It is how our entire body’s response to sound—both the reception and expression of sound—that keeps us whole.
The body is an orchestra comprised of many different instruments.
As long as the instruments are in tune, the body is in tune.
How can we determine if your body is in tune?
We
use your voice, which reflects what your ear and brain receive and perceive.
3. The ear is viewed as the body’s global sensory processor and not just a hearing mechanism, as all of the body’s senses are stimulated either directly or indirectly through the ear. Sound vibration is also processed through bone response, cell response, the nervous system, the circulatory system, and the soft tissue network of the body. The body as a whole is considered a vibrational frequency entity.
Auditory facts:
1. The ear is the only sensory system fully functioning in utero 2. Hearing is the last sense to go before we die By its very development and use, the ear is major to a child’s growth and learning.
3. The ear is more than your hearing sense; it is responsible for your vestibular function—balance, coordination, muscle tone, eye-hand coordination, proprioception, and more.
4. The auditory pathways are in 90% of the brain. 5. There are more auditory nerve root endings than any other type
Anatomy: The Ear is the Major Sensory Stimulator for the Body
It stimulates our sense of: * taste * touch * sight * smell * hearing Additionally, it affects our balance, emotions, digestion, and social skills.
The Ear
The
ear becomes the early input center for the body and supports continued learning and development through out life.
Diagnosis doesn’t matter
The diagnosis of the person seeking to make change does not matter, for it is the sound energy patterns of the body that determine the possibilities for change for each individual. In other words, sound-based therapies force the evaluator and the client to focus on the energy patterns of the body, not the disability—neither medical nor educational. The symptoms, disabilities and challenges are not what are addressed. Each person is helped as an individual energy entity.
The Voice-Ear-Brain Connection
The process is highlighted in “The Cycle of Sound®”, a symbiotic relationship of our cell’s natural give and take of sound transference across the cell wall and expressed through The Tree of Sound Enhancement Therapy® with the use of sound-based therapies.
The Tree of Sound Enhancement Therapy Protocol®--a Developmental flow chart for the administration of sound therapy.
Developmental Flow
1. Sense of Hearing 2. Body Rhythms 3. General Sound Processing Connections 4. Specific Auditory Processing Skills 5. Academic Skills 6. Overall body stability and maintenance
While there are many different sound-based therapies that can be administered individually with some level of success, the best outcomes are evidenced when The Tree analogy is used.
The Tree has 6 Parts:
1. Sense of Hearing
The “Root System” addresses one’s sense of hearing. The therapy(ies) offered at this level are a form of Auditory Integration Training, which repatterns how the acoustic reflex muscle in the middle ear responds to sound, and subsequently supports the reception of sound in the cochlea. These therapies are modeled after the work of Dr. Guy Berard. The changes evidenced are a result of better sound reception.
Auditory Integration Training
A ten day program listening for ½ hour 2 times a day Uses special music and equipment to stimulate a muscle in the middle ear Should be done with little additional sensory stimulation
Auditory Integration Training: Hearing Sensitivity Audiogram
The Davis Center’s Research
1. Measuring pre and post acoustic reflexes Subjects: 259
91% made change from very low to normal 8% made change almost to normal 1% stayed same or regressed
AIT: What are the benefits?
Improved “sense of hearing” Increased attention to auditory stimuli Better eye contact Improved “sense of self” Improved language skills Improved articulation And anything else related to improved ‘hearing’ of sound stimulation
Developmental Flow
2.
The “Seed” is the foundation for all sound response in the body as it addresses our basal body rhythms, such as the heart beat or breath stream. The therapies at this level of The Tree can be utilized at any time in the person’s protocol of sound therapies because these skills bring the person back into focus and keep them feeling positive at their core level. These therapies introduce rhythmical patterns to which the body responds physically and emotionally.
Body Rhythms
REI
Rhythmic Entrainment Intervention (REI)-- a MusicMedicine therapy program Uses auditory rhythmic stimulation Includes two custom-made audio CDs Listen 20 minutes per day for 10 weeks
What are REI® Benefits?
Reach basal body rhythms for difficult to treat Offer a continuum of service at home Help maintain focus and attention Can be used before or after Roots, Trunk, Leaves and Branches, and Maintenance
Developmental Flow
3.. General Sound Processing
Connections The “Trunk” addresses all responses of the ear for general sound processing stimulation, not hearing. The programs at this level are called Listening Training Programs and are modeled after the work of Dr. Alfred Tomatis who established the Tomatis® Method. The changes evidenced are a result of the vibrational stimulation through the parts of the ear: cochlea, semicircular canals, and vestibule, as well as the bones, circulatory system, nervous system, soft-tissue network, and cell structure of the body.
Listening Training Programs
Modeled after Dr. Alfred Tomatis’s work. He was a French physician and researcher, & developed the “Tomatis® Method” after years of research
“We listen with our whole body”
One of the primary functions of the ear is to create cortical charge for the brain
Listening Test
While listening:
Draw Work puzzles Play games Engage in dialogue Activities to integrate reflex and sensory systems
Draw
Work Puzzles
Play Games
Engage in Dialogue
Sensory Activities
The Program
Typical Program: 15 days listening 2 hrs per day; 36 wks off; 15 more days listening 2 hrs per day
100 Autistic Children: Percent of Positive Change Reported by Parents Post Tomatis
11 AD/HD Children: Percent of Positive Change Reported by Parents Post Tomatis
Other Parts of the World are Using Sound Therapy
Listening Training Programs: What are the benefits?
Decreased hypersensitivities Improved attention and focus Improved communication skills Improved oral motor skills Improved facial muscle tone Improved vestibular balance Improved posture and rhythm Improved social interaction Improved reading Improved handwriting
Developmental Flow
4. Specific Auditory Processing Skills
The “Lower Leaves and Branches” address specific auditory processing skills such as memory, sequencing, and discrimination. These skills are inherent in how the brain receives information from the auditory pathway to the brain, specifically from the cochlea to the auditory reception centers in the brain. There are numerous sound-based therapies that address these skills either in a specific skill area such as temporal sequencing, or with general overall auditory processing skills.
The Listening Program
The Listening Program is a generic listening program that can support and enhance listening, attention, focus, organization, and learning skills.
TLP: What are the Benefits?
Generic program for multiple learning disabilities. Short and simple to introduce and administer Changes seen for learning and sense of self Helps make higher functioning changes Can be used at home or at leisure Used as a support to maintain change after Listening Training Programs
Interactive Metronome
Uses metronome beat and interactive response to develop rhythm and timing Impacts organization and focusing skills
What are IM® Benefits?
Increased attention without distraction Improved planning and sequencing skills Improved mental concentration Improved physical motion skills Improved cognition and academic performance Better control of aggression
Fast ForWord
Developed from Dr.’s Tallal and Merzenich’s research Parent company is Scientific Learning Corporation
What are FF® benefits?
Improved temporal sequencing skills Faster response time receptively Enhanced learning skills Improved reading skills Improved listening in background noise And any other skill that uses better processing skills
Developmental Flow
5.
The “Upper Leaves and Branches” address the academic areas such as reading, spelling and handwriting skills, which can only be maximally achieved when the foundation of The Tree is in place. People can have these skills as splinter skills but not always process them in their entirety. The programs suggested at this level must include an auditory, visual, and language combination of instructional skills, thereby allowing for full integration of the foundational skills.
Academic skills
Developmental Flow
6.
Overall body stability and maintenance The “Overall Maintenance of The Tree” addresses one’s wellness or body support for maintaining the learning and developmental changes obtained with the therapies at the various parts of The Tree. The head surrounding The Tree reflects the combination of the Voice, the Ear, and the Brain supporting each other for the learning and developmental changes. Currently the voice identifies the body’s imbalances and then the ear sends the correcting frequency to the brain and body so that the body can make foundational change.
When The Davis Center looks at wellness, we look at your body being in a sense of harmony.
How can we determine if your body is in harmony?
We
use your voice.
In reality, each of our body’s ‘instruments’ represent a specific frequency or sound. Every part of our body is made up of atoms and molecules. By their very nature, these particles move. Where there is movement, science knows there is friction. Where there is friction, there is frequency; and where there is frequency, there is sound.
So, our body represents many thousands of frequencies!! The easiest way to determine if our body’s frequencies are staying in tune is through vocal analysis.
Voiceprint
When the frequencies of the body become distorted, the voiceprint will display these distortions.
BioAcoustics explores the
potential that the voice is a mathematical representation of the body.
Vocal analysis has supported the notion that the Body is a Mathematical Matrix of Predictable Frequency Relationships.
Frequency Equivalents
tm
A numeric representation of an element, compound or structure within the body; Including muscles, biochemicals, nutrients, toxins, connective tissue, nerves, organs and pathogens.
Through low frequency sound presentation, the brain perceives, then generates impulse patterns that are measured as brain wave frequencies. These brain wave frequency impulses travel to the rest of the body via the nerve pathways, helping sustain structural integrity and emotional equilibrium.
Before Sound Presentation
After Sound Presentatio n
Vocal Analysis Printout
Comparison to urinalysis
Vocal analysis
Urinalysis
Arsenic HH Bismuth H Boron H Chromium Picolinate H Cobalt Hydrocarbonyl H Copper Arsenite H Lithium Acetate H Potassium H Sodium I Zirconium L
Arsenic present RR Bismuth present RR Boron present RR Chromium Picolinate present RR Cobalt present RR Copper present RR Lithium present RR Potassium present RR Sodium present RR Zirconium present RR
What are BioA™ benefits?
BioAcoustics assists the body in supporting its own natural form and function
overall wellness muscular/skeletal issues enhanced learning skills Specific wellness issues Vaccination concerns Hormonal issues complement or supplement to other wellness practitioners
Available Therapies
TRUNK Listening Training Programs: Tomatis® Enlisten® SYSTEM MAINTENANCE BioAcoustics The Voice LEAVES Fast ForWord® Interactive Metronome® ROOT SYSTEM Auditory Integration Training
OUR BODIES
Our bodies search for stability between external sound sources and internal body vibrations to create balance. Our bodies react physically and psychologically. Sometimes the body cannot make the change by itself and needs a sound-based therapy to accomplish the change.
What becomes important?
The connections between the voice, the ear, and the brain The cell’s response to sound The Diagnostic Evaluation for Therapy Protocol (DETP™)
The Diagnostic Evaluation for Therapy Protocol
is used to identify if, when, how long, and in what order, any or all of the many different sound-based therapies can be appropriately applied. According to “The Davis Model of Sound Intervention®”, once the determination is made, then the correct sound-based therapies are introduced in the appropriate order.
DETP®
Provides solutions to understanding the complexities of soundbased therapies
The Diagnostic Evaluation
Evaluates hearing, process of sound stimulation, specific auditory skills, and the body’s cellular response to sound. The process revolves around “The Tree of Sound Enhancement Therapy®”.
It is not the disability that is helped. Sound-based therapies, as directed by The Tree of Sound Enhancement Therapy™, address the challenges of many learning, development, and wellness issues.
It is not always the specific therapy that will make the most change. All sound-based therapies can make change but the correct administration of the therapies will maximize the energy responses of the body to enhance the body’s natural form and function.
We need to stimulate the brain with frequency, duration, and intensity to make change. We need to balance the voice, ear, brain connection with this frequency, duration, and intensity in the correct order for maximum change to occur.
Davis Model
The Davis Model of Sound Intervention is based on a total person approach. Maximum learning is supported by maximum wellness. This is accomplished using the interventions described in The Tree of Sound Enhancement Therapy™. This combination maximizes and maintains the body’s responses.
www.thedaviscenter.com
Additional Information:
Contact Information:
Dorinne S. Davis The Davis Center 19 State Rt 10 E, Ste 25 Succasunna, NJ 07876 862-251-4637 www.thedaviscenter.com info@thedaviscenter.com
The Davis Model of Sound Intervention: Combining Sound and Science for Positive Change
Dorinne Davis, MA, CCC-A, FAAA, RCTC, BARA The Davis Center, Succasunna, NJ www.thedaviscenter.com
The Davis Model of Sound Intervention® Uses the power of sound to enhance the Voice-Ear-Brain Connection to make positive changes in learning, development, and wellness with specific sound-based therapies.
What is sound-based therapy?
Sound-based therapy uses sound vibration with special equipment, modified music, and/or specific tones/beats, the need for which is identified with appropriate testing.
Sound-based therapy goes beyond hearing, beyond auditory processing, and beyond music. Sound-based therapy utilizes the energy of the person and supports change with the person’s natural form and function by repatterning this energy.
Discussion of terms:
Sound Healing: Using tones, mantras, various rhythms and sound patterns, and other sounding techniques to support change with the body’s energy patterns Sound Therapy: Using specific notes of the musical scales to make change with the body’s energy patterns usually with a sounding source Sound-based therapy: already defined Music: The Artwork of Sound Music Therapy: Using the Artwork of Sound to make change with emotional, behavioral, and physiological body responses
Additional Terms:
1.Hearing is the physical act of utilizing the ear to receive sound 2.Listening involves using the brain in conjunction with the physical act of receiving sound. (Involves a mental process) 3.Perception is how the brain receives and uses sound
Names of Sound-based Therapies:
Auditory Integration Training The Tomatis® Method BioAcoustics™ The Listening Program® EnListen® Samonas® Fast ForWord® Interactive Metronome®
All sound therapies are not the same!
Any sound therapy can make change. It is the correct order of the administration of sound therapies that can make the greatest impact. The order is identified from testing.
How does Sound Therapy help learning and development?
The origins of sound therapy come from the work of Dr. Alfred Tomatis The concepts are based on the connection between the voice, the ear, and the brain Sound therapy supports the natural biological development of the child.
How Does Sound Impact Us?
We hear sound through our ears, our skin, our bones, our sense of touch, and our cells It affects our physical wellbeing, emotions, and response to the world around us We must hear sound correctly in order to process what is being said
Sound Responses: The Positive Impact of Sound
Calming and relaxing Uplifting Brings into focus Creates awareness of world Motivates Enhances responsiveness
Negative Impact of Sound
Wants to be isolated when too much sound Avoids noisy situations Has difficulty listening in background noise Avoids talking to others or hogs the conversation Appears over anxious
Negative Impact on the Special Needs Child
Will cover ears Will turn TV volume up Has fear of sound (phobia) Will tune out the world Dislikes background noise Will react sometimes and not others May act “deaf”
Auditory Deprivation
The body does not receive the necessary stimulation to enhance the connective networks between the ear, the brain, and/or the rest of the body.
Misperception of Sound
Hypersensitivity to sound Stilted learning Disconnected speech Difficulty listening in background noise Auditory processing timing lag Weak auditory discrimination skills
Misperceptions Continued
Localization of sound Emotional Instability Attention and focusing weaknesses Vestibular and balance disorders Health and well-being issues
The Davis Model of Sound Intervention® Uses the power of sound to enhance the Voice-Ear-Brain Connection so that the body can begin to function from a more normalized foundation.
The concepts behind the model
•
3 key points:
There are 5 laws which connect the voice, the ear, and the brain. Summarized, the voice produces what the ear hears, and the ear emits the same stressed frequencies as the voice. If one is modified, the other changes and the brain sends the correcting response to the body. These laws are known as The Tomatis Effect and The Davis Addendum® to the Tomatis Effect.
Combined, these laws are known as The Voice-Ear-Brain Connection:
The subtle biological, biochemical, whole body inter-relationship of how the voice reflects and impacts what the ear hears and processes, and what the brain perceives, interprets, and relays to the body.
2.
Every cell in the body emits and takes in sound frequencies, thereby portraying the body as one’s “Signature Symphony of Sound®”. If there is an ‘out of tune’ frequency, the ‘instruments (cells)’ of the body are not supporting the symphony and the music is discordant. The ‘out of tune’ frequencies are identified. The sound is introduced to the body and the brain then introduces the correct frequency to the cell to ‘tune it up’.
It is not just the incoming sound that we receive by hearing or listening that is important. It is how our entire body’s response to sound—both the reception and expression of sound—that keeps us whole.
The body is an orchestra comprised of many different instruments.
As long as the instruments are in tune, the body is in tune.
How can we determine if your body is in tune?
We
use your voice, which reflects what your ear and brain receive and perceive.
3. The ear is viewed as the body’s global sensory processor and not just a hearing mechanism, as all of the body’s senses are stimulated either directly or indirectly through the ear. Sound vibration is also processed through bone response, cell response, the nervous system, the circulatory system, and the soft tissue network of the body. The body as a whole is considered a vibrational frequency entity.
Auditory facts:
1. The ear is the only sensory system fully functioning in utero 2. Hearing is the last sense to go before we die By its very development and use, the ear is major to a child’s growth and learning.
3. The ear is more than your hearing sense; it is responsible for your vestibular function—balance, coordination, muscle tone, eye-hand coordination, proprioception, and more.
4. The auditory pathways are in 90% of the brain. 5. There are more auditory nerve root endings than any other type
Anatomy: The Ear is the Major Sensory Stimulator for the Body
It stimulates our sense of: * taste * touch * sight * smell * hearing Additionally, it affects our balance, emotions, digestion, and social skills.
The Ear
The
ear becomes the early input center for the body and supports continued learning and development through out life.
Diagnosis doesn’t matter
The diagnosis of the person seeking to make change does not matter, for it is the sound energy patterns of the body that determine the possibilities for change for each individual. In other words, sound-based therapies force the evaluator and the client to focus on the energy patterns of the body, not the disability—neither medical nor educational. The symptoms, disabilities and challenges are not what are addressed. Each person is helped as an individual energy entity.
The Voice-Ear-Brain Connection
The process is highlighted in “The Cycle of Sound®”, a symbiotic relationship of our cell’s natural give and take of sound transference across the cell wall and expressed through The Tree of Sound Enhancement Therapy® with the use of sound-based therapies.
The Tree of Sound Enhancement Therapy Protocol®--a Developmental flow chart for the administration of sound therapy.
Developmental Flow
1. Sense of Hearing 2. Body Rhythms 3. General Sound Processing Connections 4. Specific Auditory Processing Skills 5. Academic Skills 6. Overall body stability and maintenance
While there are many different sound-based therapies that can be administered individually with some level of success, the best outcomes are evidenced when The Tree analogy is used.
The Tree has 6 Parts:
1. Sense of Hearing
The “Root System” addresses one’s sense of hearing. The therapy(ies) offered at this level are a form of Auditory Integration Training, which repatterns how the acoustic reflex muscle in the middle ear responds to sound, and subsequently supports the reception of sound in the cochlea. These therapies are modeled after the work of Dr. Guy Berard. The changes evidenced are a result of better sound reception.
Auditory Integration Training
A ten day program listening for ½ hour 2 times a day Uses special music and equipment to stimulate a muscle in the middle ear Should be done with little additional sensory stimulation
Auditory Integration Training: Hearing Sensitivity Audiogram
The Davis Center’s Research
1. Measuring pre and post acoustic reflexes Subjects: 259
91% made change from very low to normal 8% made change almost to normal 1% stayed same or regressed
AIT: What are the benefits?
Improved “sense of hearing” Increased attention to auditory stimuli Better eye contact Improved “sense of self” Improved language skills Improved articulation And anything else related to improved ‘hearing’ of sound stimulation
Developmental Flow
2.
The “Seed” is the foundation for all sound response in the body as it addresses our basal body rhythms, such as the heart beat or breath stream. The therapies at this level of The Tree can be utilized at any time in the person’s protocol of sound therapies because these skills bring the person back into focus and keep them feeling positive at their core level. These therapies introduce rhythmical patterns to which the body responds physically and emotionally.
Body Rhythms
REI
Rhythmic Entrainment Intervention (REI)-- a MusicMedicine therapy program Uses auditory rhythmic stimulation Includes two custom-made audio CDs Listen 20 minutes per day for 10 weeks
What are REI® Benefits?
Reach basal body rhythms for difficult to treat Offer a continuum of service at home Help maintain focus and attention Can be used before or after Roots, Trunk, Leaves and Branches, and Maintenance
Developmental Flow
3.. General Sound Processing
Connections The “Trunk” addresses all responses of the ear for general sound processing stimulation, not hearing. The programs at this level are called Listening Training Programs and are modeled after the work of Dr. Alfred Tomatis who established the Tomatis® Method. The changes evidenced are a result of the vibrational stimulation through the parts of the ear: cochlea, semicircular canals, and vestibule, as well as the bones, circulatory system, nervous system, soft-tissue network, and cell structure of the body.
Listening Training Programs
Modeled after Dr. Alfred Tomatis’s work. He was a French physician and researcher, & developed the “Tomatis® Method” after years of research
“We listen with our whole body”
One of the primary functions of the ear is to create cortical charge for the brain
Listening Test
While listening:
Draw Work puzzles Play games Engage in dialogue Activities to integrate reflex and sensory systems
Draw
Work Puzzles
Play Games
Engage in Dialogue
Sensory Activities
The Program
Typical Program: 15 days listening 2 hrs per day; 36 wks off; 15 more days listening 2 hrs per day
100 Autistic Children: Percent of Positive Change Reported by Parents Post Tomatis
11 AD/HD Children: Percent of Positive Change Reported by Parents Post Tomatis
Other Parts of the World are Using Sound Therapy
Listening Training Programs: What are the benefits?
Decreased hypersensitivities Improved attention and focus Improved communication skills Improved oral motor skills Improved facial muscle tone Improved vestibular balance Improved posture and rhythm Improved social interaction Improved reading Improved handwriting
Developmental Flow
4. Specific Auditory Processing Skills
The “Lower Leaves and Branches” address specific auditory processing skills such as memory, sequencing, and discrimination. These skills are inherent in how the brain receives information from the auditory pathway to the brain, specifically from the cochlea to the auditory reception centers in the brain. There are numerous sound-based therapies that address these skills either in a specific skill area such as temporal sequencing, or with general overall auditory processing skills.
The Listening Program
The Listening Program is a generic listening program that can support and enhance listening, attention, focus, organization, and learning skills.
TLP: What are the Benefits?
Generic program for multiple learning disabilities. Short and simple to introduce and administer Changes seen for learning and sense of self Helps make higher functioning changes Can be used at home or at leisure Used as a support to maintain change after Listening Training Programs
Interactive Metronome
Uses metronome beat and interactive response to develop rhythm and timing Impacts organization and focusing skills
What are IM® Benefits?
Increased attention without distraction Improved planning and sequencing skills Improved mental concentration Improved physical motion skills Improved cognition and academic performance Better control of aggression
Fast ForWord
Developed from Dr.’s Tallal and Merzenich’s research Parent company is Scientific Learning Corporation
What are FF® benefits?
Improved temporal sequencing skills Faster response time receptively Enhanced learning skills Improved reading skills Improved listening in background noise And any other skill that uses better processing skills
Developmental Flow
5.
The “Upper Leaves and Branches” address the academic areas such as reading, spelling and handwriting skills, which can only be maximally achieved when the foundation of The Tree is in place. People can have these skills as splinter skills but not always process them in their entirety. The programs suggested at this level must include an auditory, visual, and language combination of instructional skills, thereby allowing for full integration of the foundational skills.
Academic skills
Developmental Flow
6.
Overall body stability and maintenance The “Overall Maintenance of The Tree” addresses one’s wellness or body support for maintaining the learning and developmental changes obtained with the therapies at the various parts of The Tree. The head surrounding The Tree reflects the combination of the Voice, the Ear, and the Brain supporting each other for the learning and developmental changes. Currently the voice identifies the body’s imbalances and then the ear sends the correcting frequency to the brain and body so that the body can make foundational change.
When The Davis Center looks at wellness, we look at your body being in a sense of harmony.
How can we determine if your body is in harmony?
We
use your voice.
In reality, each of our body’s ‘instruments’ represent a specific frequency or sound. Every part of our body is made up of atoms and molecules. By their very nature, these particles move. Where there is movement, science knows there is friction. Where there is friction, there is frequency; and where there is frequency, there is sound.
So, our body represents many thousands of frequencies!! The easiest way to determine if our body’s frequencies are staying in tune is through vocal analysis.
Voiceprint
When the frequencies of the body become distorted, the voiceprint will display these distortions.
BioAcoustics explores the
potential that the voice is a mathematical representation of the body.
Vocal analysis has supported the notion that the Body is a Mathematical Matrix of Predictable Frequency Relationships.
Frequency Equivalents
tm
A numeric representation of an element, compound or structure within the body; Including muscles, biochemicals, nutrients, toxins, connective tissue, nerves, organs and pathogens.
Through low frequency sound presentation, the brain perceives, then generates impulse patterns that are measured as brain wave frequencies. These brain wave frequency impulses travel to the rest of the body via the nerve pathways, helping sustain structural integrity and emotional equilibrium.
Before Sound Presentation
After Sound Presentatio n
Vocal Analysis Printout
Comparison to urinalysis
Vocal analysis
Urinalysis
Arsenic HH Bismuth H Boron H Chromium Picolinate H Cobalt Hydrocarbonyl H Copper Arsenite H Lithium Acetate H Potassium H Sodium I Zirconium L
Arsenic present RR Bismuth present RR Boron present RR Chromium Picolinate present RR Cobalt present RR Copper present RR Lithium present RR Potassium present RR Sodium present RR Zirconium present RR
What are BioA™ benefits?
BioAcoustics assists the body in supporting its own natural form and function
overall wellness muscular/skeletal issues enhanced learning skills Specific wellness issues Vaccination concerns Hormonal issues complement or supplement to other wellness practitioners
Available Therapies
TRUNK Listening Training Programs: Tomatis® Enlisten® SYSTEM MAINTENANCE BioAcoustics The Voice LEAVES Fast ForWord® Interactive Metronome® ROOT SYSTEM Auditory Integration Training
OUR BODIES
Our bodies search for stability between external sound sources and internal body vibrations to create balance. Our bodies react physically and psychologically. Sometimes the body cannot make the change by itself and needs a sound-based therapy to accomplish the change.
What becomes important?
The connections between the voice, the ear, and the brain The cell’s response to sound The Diagnostic Evaluation for Therapy Protocol (DETP™)
The Diagnostic Evaluation for Therapy Protocol
is used to identify if, when, how long, and in what order, any or all of the many different sound-based therapies can be appropriately applied. According to “The Davis Model of Sound Intervention®”, once the determination is made, then the correct sound-based therapies are introduced in the appropriate order.
DETP®
Provides solutions to understanding the complexities of soundbased therapies
The Diagnostic Evaluation
Evaluates hearing, process of sound stimulation, specific auditory skills, and the body’s cellular response to sound. The process revolves around “The Tree of Sound Enhancement Therapy®”.
It is not the disability that is helped. Sound-based therapies, as directed by The Tree of Sound Enhancement Therapy™, address the challenges of many learning, development, and wellness issues.
It is not always the specific therapy that will make the most change. All sound-based therapies can make change but the correct administration of the therapies will maximize the energy responses of the body to enhance the body’s natural form and function.
We need to stimulate the brain with frequency, duration, and intensity to make change. We need to balance the voice, ear, brain connection with this frequency, duration, and intensity in the correct order for maximum change to occur.
Davis Model
The Davis Model of Sound Intervention is based on a total person approach. Maximum learning is supported by maximum wellness. This is accomplished using the interventions described in The Tree of Sound Enhancement Therapy™. This combination maximizes and maintains the body’s responses.
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Dorinne S. Davis The Davis Center 19 State Rt 10 E, Ste 25 Succasunna, NJ 07876 862-251-4637 www.thedaviscenter.com info@thedaviscenter.com
