Integrated listening system
Integrated Listening Systems is a multi-sensory assessment and training program, which “re-wires” parts of the brain involved with learning, communicating and movement utilizing the concept of neuroplasticity which is our well-known approach as well. Listening therapy, like occupational therapy, is based on the theory of neuroplasticity, which refers to brain changes that can occur.
At Sixsenses, children and adult receive iLs remotely as well as in-session, but its is our understanding that not every child or adult is appropriate for iLs. For few, we recommend iLs as a home program. At times, we recommend iLs simultaneously with occupational therapy or speech therapy, which best fits ones need.
ILS was built upon a psychoacoustic technique developed by Alfred Tomatis, M.D., and refined by Integrated Listening Systems. It is one of the efficient method in providing sensory input to optimize listening function. ILs helps improve the neurophysiological base for integrating sensory input by using specific sound frequencies, vibrations and patterns to rewire the brain.
rhythmic movement therapy
Rhythmic movement training is a reflex integration program based on movements and other activities that replicate our earliest movement patterns to establish, strengthen, retrain the foundations of posture, central nervous system (CNS) maturity, vestibular function, sensory processing, memory, learning, emotions and behavior.
Rhythmic movement training originated in Sweden in the 1970s when a self-taught therapist Kristin Linde used the observational skills she has developed as a photographer to devise a series of movements based on what infants naturally do in the first months after birth. She observed that these movements starts as an uncoordinated movements and transitions into a coordinated smooth movements that are rhythmical in nature.
Rhythmic Movement Training International (RMTi) is established by Moira Dempsey to continue the powerful work into future from Dr. Bloomberg through a camp for special children conducted by Svetlana Masgutova, phD.
Rhythmic movement training helps with:
- Integrating reflexes
- Building neural pathways
- Creating postural foundations
- Stimulating the senses