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Johansen Individualised
Auditory Stimulation Therapy involves
listening to
music specifically
designed to stimulate the nerve pathways into language areas of the
brain. Children as
young as three, adolescents and adults can all benefit. The
music
is customised (where possible) to the child's
auditory strengths
and weaknesses. This therapy can help with the following
difficulties :
- auditory
processing difficulties
- following and
understanding instructions
- delay in spoken
language – difficulties with
vocabulary, recalling words, sentence construction
- poor
attention,listening and concentration skills
- autism spectrum
disorders
- self-esteem and
confidence
- dyslexia - reading and
written language difficulties
- processing speed and
working memory difficulties
Johansen IAS is a home
or school-based program which involves daily listening to CDs with
specially recorded music for 10 minutes through headphones.
Reviews are carried out every four to ten weeks (depending on
age)
where progress is discussed and a new listening audiogram is taken.
A new CD will be made, again customised to the individual
needs
of the listener.
"Some
school age children have
normal auditory thresholds yet appear to have a hearing impairment.
They are described by their parents and teachers as children
who
are uncertain about what they hear, have difficulty listening in the
presence of background noise, struggle to follow oral instructions and
find understanidng rapid or degraded speech difficult. In a
significant proportion of these children, the listening problems result
from an auditory processing deficit:the defective processing of
auditory information in spite of normal thresholds. (Jerger and Musiek,
2000).
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