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Alex Doman Founder & CEO - Advanced Brain Technologies

Co-Author- Healing at the Speed of Sound

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Acoustically-Modified Music: Brain Training for Improving Auditory

Processing and Sound Hypersensitivity

Autism One/Generation Rescue Conference 2013

Auditory Hypersensitivity is Perceptual Three Definitions

Abnormally sensitive hearing in which tolerable sounds are perceived as

excessively loud

An increased sensitivity to sound perception, subjective in nature

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Aversion to certain sounds Leo Kanner 1943 Hearing

Perception ”tap, tap, tap”

Auditory Processing

Listening is Active You listen with your brain

Auditory Processing What your brain does with what it hears

Hearing is passive You hear with your ears

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Auditory Cognitive Decision Making

Memory

Emotional Language Sensory Regulation

Six Integrated Systems

•  Think- cognitive

•  Remember- memory & emotional

•  Fight or Flight- sensory regulation (ANS)

Maladaptive Responses 1. Outer ear

2. Middle ear

3. Inner ear

Classical Auditory Pathway

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3 Divisions of the Ear

Outer Ear (pinna, ear canal,

tympanic membrane)

Middle Ear (ossicles, muscles, eustachian tube)

Inner Ear (cochlea,

vestibular system)

Non-Classical Auditory Pathway

1. Limbic System

2. Cerebellum

Evaluation 68%-76% of children identified as ASD could tolerate loud sounds

Lucker, Gomes and colleagues

Treatment

1. Desensitization training

2. Listening methods

Desensitize the limbic system Reprogram emotional memory

A  prac-ce  of  listening  to  acous-cally  modified  music  that  improves  how  

your  brain  works  

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Specialized music improves brain function

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Prefrontal cortex

Visual cortex

Motor cortex Sensory

cortex Auditory cortex

Source: D.J. Levitin and A.K. Tirovolas/Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2009; Image: Charles Floyd.

The Musical Brain

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Cerebellum

Hippocampus

Amygdala

Nucleus accumbens

Source: D.J. Levitin and A.K. Tirovolas/Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2009; Image: Charles Floyd.

The Musical Brain

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 11, 599-605 (August 2010) | doi:10.1038/nrn2882 Science and Society

Music training for the development of auditory skills Nina Kraus & Bharath Chandrasekaran

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A Mother’s Comments

15 - 30 minutes 5 days a week

TLP trains the classical and non-classical auditory pathways

Bone Conduction

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The multi-sensory audio system optimized for The Listening Program

Second Brain

Enteric Nervous System

Calm

Comfortable

Attentive

Communicative Continent

Socially Engaged

Happy!

Results

Occupational Therapy International,16 (1). 25-43.

A case study of a five-year-old child with pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified using sound based interventions. Amy J Nwora, Bryan M Gee

“Following intervention, John no longer demonstrated poor posture, atypical drive for touch, messy handwriting or difficulty with organization/structure…. John no longer demonstrated low frustration tolerance, difficulty making judgments, and generalizing to new situations, lack of tactfulness or inability to tolerate stress.”

-Nwora and Gee “A case study of a five-year-old child with

PDD-NOS using sound-based interventions” Occupational Therapy International, volume 16, issue 1

Auditory Hypersensitivity is treatable

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Makes sound something one desires rather than avoids

Auditory Hypersensitivity and Autism Spectrum Disorders: An Emotional Response Jay R. Lucker, EDD, CCC-A/SLP, FAAA and Alex Doman Autism Science Digest Issue 04 2012

“Sound is an unrecognized

pillar of health”

-Alex Doman

Alex Doman alex@advancedbrain.com

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