The Listening Program
Home-based therapy that is safe, effective & drug-free
The Listening Program is a home-based therapy that is a safe, effective, drug-free approach that helps the brain process sensory input more efficiently.
This leads to reduced stress, a calmer central nervous system and improved auditory skills that are required to effectively listen, learn, and communicate. Listening Programs are suitable for children age 2 through to teens, adults, and seniors. Completely portable and easy to use, The Listening Program fits easily into anyone's schedule and usually only requires 15 to 30 minutes of daily listening.
Autism, Brain Injuries, Stroke patients, Aging Brains.
Auditory and Sensory Processing difficulties,
Attention Challenges, Reading and Spelling Difficulties
Speech and Language difficulties
Behavioural Challenges
Those seeking overall wellness with brain processing
It can support those with:
Auditory Processing
Sensory Processing
Self-regulation
Social Engagement
Reading & Spelling
Attention
Memory
Motor Coordination
Language
Reduced sound sensitivities
Potential Benefits in the following areas:
There are four Core Listening Programs, the most suitable one will be recommended to you based on your needs.
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The most widely used series in The Listening Program® LEVEL ONE is flexible; offering a foundational to experienced level program for improving brain function and mental abilities at any age.
To accommodate individual listener preferences, LEVEL ONE is available in two options: music only, or blended with beautiful sounds of nature. While many prefer to enjoy and focus on the engaging music, others, especially children, will benefit from the added novelty of listening to music and nature sounds together.
Featuring an extensive library of High Definition music recordings performed by the award-winning Arcangelos Chamber Ensemble, LEVEL ONE is offered in Spatial Surround® sound providing a wide variety of listening with a rich tapestry of sound featuring compositions by Mozart, Haydn, Vivaldi, and Danzi.
LEVEL ONE is arranged in four progressive frequency zones, stimulating different brain areas and their related functions during the course of your personalized listening schedule. The training emphasis is well balanced across the zones making LEVEL ONE adaptable for people of all ages, supporting social & emotional function, auditory processing, communication, executive function, creative expression, motor coordination, stress response, self-awareness, musicality, and more.
Order your LEVEL ONE listening system on an iPad with your choice of high-quality headphones, or with the Waves™ multi-sensory audio system. LEVEL ONE is available with both music only and music blended with nature sounds.
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Sound is everywhere, it’s as much a part of our lives as the air we breathe and the food we eat.
Yet many of us become stressed or uncomfortable with sounds in our own home, school, work, and public places, and aren’t even aware of it. Negative sound exposure has a scientifically proven impact on health, sleep, attention, learning, communication, listening and more.
There is an easy and effective solution… The Listening Program® SPECTRUM is a foundational program created for children and adults with sensory sensitivities in need of a therapeutic intervention, and those listening for wellness. SPECTRUM creates a healthy relationship with sound by training the brain with pleasing evidence-based music which can improve brain processing of sound, reduce sensory sensitivities, and help people find comfort and safety in their environment.
Featuring an extensive library of High Definition music recordings performed by the award-winning Arcangelos Chamber Ensemble, SPECTRUM is offered in Spatial Surround® sound providing a wide variety of listening with a rich tapestry of sound featuring compositions by Mozart, Haydn, Vivaldi, and Danzi.
SPECTRUM is arranged in four progressive frequency zones, stimulating different brain areas and their related functions during the course of your personalized listening schedule. The training emphasis is in the lower frequency music of the green zone supporting social & emotional functions, motor coordination, stress response, sensory processing, and more
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Adaptive program for sensitive to advanced listeners
• Focus and timing precision for speed, accuracy, and rhythm of cognitive-motor planning
• Adaptive responses to stress and external triggers
• Internal organization for the mind-body connection for learning
• Fluid and articulate communication and language skills
• Organization skills to be in sync with the environment and schedules • Attainment of personal development goals
• Internal organization for mind-body connection
• Rhythm and timing awareness to be in sync with the environment
• Focus and timing precision to respond to stimulation quickly and appropriately.
Rhythm affects and connects the brain and the body; rhythm stimulates rhythm. inTime is used to improve the integration of movement, position, touch, and vision with motor systems.
TLP inTime is a holistic approach offering rhythmic musical support to help accelerate physical and emotional healing. It can, reduce tension, anxiety, and stress for faster recovery. The rhythmic music of inTime engages the sensory-motor systems and positively impacts sensory and auditory processing disorders to improve learning
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Success is within our reach. It’s in our nature to develop ourselves and accomplish what we set our minds to do.
Those who attain their goals, and fully realize their potential: develop their ability to focus, listen, learn, communicate, plan, organize, and manage time, all while increasing their skills, imagination, creativity, motivation and persistence.
There is a practical and effective tool for success…The Listening Program® ACHIEVE is an intermediate to experienced level program developed for older children, teens, and adults seeking changes in learning, communication, and peak performance. ACHIEVE increases mental performance by training the brain with motivating evidence based music which provides a “work enhancing” effect to help people achieve in areas of their life where performance matters most— family, school, career, and personal endeavours.
Featuring an extensive library of High Definition music recordings performed by the award-winning Arcangelos Chamber Ensemble, ACHIEVE is offered in Spatial Surround sound providing a wide variety of listening with a rich tapestry of sound featuring compositions by Mozart, Haydn, Vivaldi, and Danzi.
ACHIEVE is arranged in four progressive frequency zones, stimulating different brain areas and their related functions during the course of your personalized listening schedule. The training emphasis is in the middle to higher frequency music of the orange and red zones supporting auditory processing, communication, executive function, creative expression, personal development, increased energy, motivation, musicality, consciousness, and more.
Order your ACHIEVE listening system on an iPad with your choice of high-quality headphones, or the Waves multi-sensory audio system.
Headphones - TLP approved headphones are required.
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We recommend the advanced Waves Multi-Sensory Air and Bone Conduction Headphones and Amplifier.
TLP is enhanced with the addition of bone conduction technology. This technology takes TLP to a higher level of effectiveness. It combines the experience of listening to music through modified headphones adding subtle, synchronized acoustic vibration of the skin and skeletal system, engaging the whole body and brain in the listening process. This multi-sensory approach accelerates and expands the benefits of The Listening Program.
Bone Conduction Applications
Most listeners of all ages will achieve faster results with The Listening Program® with the addition of bone conduction technology.
Following is a list of circumstances that would indicate the use of TLP with bone conduction technology:
History of ear infections
Hearing loss
Autism Spectrum
Sensory Processing
Over or Under arousal
Poor Self-Regulation
Anxiety
Sound Sensitivities
Difficulty filtering background noise
Poor body awareness
Gravitational insecurity
Poor posture
Balance problems
Low muscle tone
Poor coordination
Poor spatial awareness
Expressive speech and language issues
Waves Bone Conduction System
Waves is comprised of a small, custom made, pocket sized, amplifier and specialised, open-air headphones that include a bone conduction transducer in the headband.
The first-generation Bone Conduction System was released in April 2007.
Theory on the Physiology of Bone Conduction
How does the addition of listening through bone conduction simultaneously with air conduction have the calming effects observed? If we consider anatomy, the inner ear resides within the petrous portion of the temporal bone which angles forward at about a 45-degree angle ending near the foramen magnum near the midline. This means the left and right inner ears are quite close to one another. Housed within this bony chamber is the membranous labyrinth that contains the cochlea and the vestibule. The vestibular system includes the three semicircular canals that provide information on rotation and dynamic movement of the head and the saccule and utricule that give the brain information on the effects of gravity and acceleration and deceleration.
Vibration of the bone is transmitted into the fluid medium of the vestibular system causing the hair cells to move in response to agitation of the calcium deposits in the macula of the utricle and saccule. The movement of the hair cells causes an electrical discharge to occur which is carried to the cerebellum, the basal ganglia and to the cortex of the brain. Through rich connections between the ear’s vestibular system, cerebellar pathways and the body’s muscles and joints, awareness of our body at a conscious and deep subconscious level is enhanced. This is the infrastructure of our ‘psyche’ or body awareness, the organizations of which is the foundation for higher learning and integration. The input from the vestibular system to the brain also charges the brain with energy at sub-cortical and cortical levels, leading to a deeper somatic awareness of ourselves as well as improved focus and attention due to this added energy input. In essence, the bone conduction through the vestibular system is grounding, meaning that we feel connected mind to body and to gravity. There is improved ability to execute the motor activities required for success in the world; be it in sports, dance, handwriting or riding a bicycle. Once the conscious attention can be freed up by making the regulation of our body movements automatic, attention can now be directed to taking on the challenges of learning, regulating our emotions, and developing the executive functions of organization, planning and impulse control.
Much of what has been described above is attributable to both air conduction and bone conduction. However, bone conduction is an added form of stimulation to the vestibular system that is stronger than air conduction alone and is particularly helpful in dealing with issues related to balance, fine and gross motor development and speech and language control. The increased input to the cortex of the brain may accelerate the maturation of the brain as well. Therefore, along with the improvements observed in balance and motor control are improvements in emotional control with reduced anxiety, fewer melt downs, less anger, crying spells and a better adjustment to the listening process.
The vagus nerve, the 10th cranial nerve, sends branches to the external surface of the eardrum and external acoustic meatus. Thus we reach out to our environment to get a “gut sense” so to speak, and to test the reliability of what we hear against our inner awareness. Stimulation of the vagus nerve also stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system, the homeostatic branch of the autonomic nervous system. This stimulation provides another level of calming influence to that provided by the bone conduction.
We listen to ourselves through bone conduction and to others through the air. If you have ever listened to a recording of your own voice you have experienced this phenomenon. Bone conduction tends to amplify low frequencies, so most people hear their own voice as being of a lower pitch than it actually is.
As we speak our entire body resonates due in part to the speed in which sound travels through bone. Our self perception through speech is primarily through the influence of the bone conduction pathway. This is quite different from how we listen to others, whose voices are transmitted through the air.
When the body and brain are stimulated with simultaneous acoustic and somatosensory stimulation, the limbic system is engaged. With the numerous cortical and subcortical brain structures that are part of the limbic system it becomes easy to understand what a profound influence bone conduction technology can have when used with The Listening Program. The whole body becomes engaged with listening, connecting mind and body with profound influence.
The advanced Waves Multi-Sensory Air and Bone Conduction Headphones and Amplifier are $1875. Alternatively, basic air conduction headphones are typically around $250.
To access The Listening Program you have three options:
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This is for those who prefer a customised Program that is individualised and fully supported with regular review testing completed every 6 weeks.You own your own program, with prices starting at $1380. The most suitable TLP program(s) will be recommended to you based on your individual needs.
This option offers an individualised more professional approach as a fully monitored program. You will receive the expert guidance from our Director Tracey Butler a published researcher in the field with over 20 years’ experience. Generally, listeners will use TLP once or twice a day for 15 minutes, five days a week. The individualised listening schedule guides you on what to listen to and when. We monitor progress, on average every 6 weeks retesting and adjusting the listening schedule according to measured change and to meet individual needs. This will take place over the course of approximately 12 months. We then provide recommended annual maintenance protocols to further support the improvements achieved at no additional cost.
Reviews and Monitoring 6-month Care & Support Package $570
You will receive:
Guaranteed appointment allocation every *6 weeks
All formal reviews and testing conducted every *6 weeks.
Unlimited one on one email and phone support
All personalised listening schedules tailored to needs.
Complimentary loan of any other therapy equipment required.
*These care packages are valid for 6 months from commencing program.
*Review every 5-8 weeks pending illness, unexpected events, and holiday periods.
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An independent approach, you own your own program, with prices starting at $1380. You will be provided with a listening plan based on your initial intake appointment. You will complete your program independently along with an initial 1-month support to help you get established.
Cost for this $149.
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An independent unsupervised approach. This is a streamed Program that you access on your computer, tablet, or smartphone with IOS and Android apps available.
An initial 1-month guidance and support via phone, email or zoom is available for $249.
TLP Online monthly access is $59.95 for an individual subscription $105 for 2 people or $125 for a family of up to 5 listeners. This is charged directly to your credit card.
* A Review and Monitoring 6-month Care and Support Package is not available with this option.
You can view the most recent research regarding The Listening Program published in 2020 by our own Director Tracey Butler along with Dr Jay Lucker and Jane Schueler in the International Journal of Listening https://doi.org/10.1080/10904018.2020.1772071.