Auditory Interventions
Pediatric Occupational Therapy Serving San Diego, California
Have you noticed that your child is easily overwhelmed in a noisy classroom? Has a doctor diagnosed them with ADHD? If so, then you should look into how sound is affecting your child’s brain. Sometimes the only issue is your child’s ability to process the sound all around them, and we can help. Auditory Intervention Therapy has been proven to improve social behavior and foster increased attention span, body awareness, and coordination. It can also heighten communication skills such as enunciation and vocabulary.
Evidence-based studies have been shown to work for individuals with the following:
– Autism spectrum disorders
– Central auditory processing disorders (CAPD)
– Speech and language disorders
– Sensory issues including auditory
– Tactile or other sensory sensitivities (hyper or hypo)
– Dyslexia
– Pervasive developmental disorder (PDD)
– Anxiety
– Depression
How Does Auditory Intervention Therapy Work?
Auditory Intervention Therapy is designed to encourage active listening to normalize the way in which the brain processes sound. For example, your child’s hearing tests may indicate that they are hypersensitive to the frequencies of 3,000 Hertz (Hz), but respond appropriately to all other frequencies within the normal range. This means they will become overstimulated, agitated, or anxious when exposed to sounds around 3,000 Hz.
Auditory Intervention with Music Therapy in San Diego
Here at FITS, we use regular auditory interventions in the form of music therapy and evidence proven auditory therapies to normalize your child’s hearing response and make them comfortable with the frequencies inside the normal hearing range.
Interactive Metronome
Interactive Metronome provides a game like an auditory-visual platform to synchronize timing in the brain. This timing is important for focusing attention, reading comprehension, remembering information, processing speech, and motor coordination. Therapists that incorporate Interactive Metronome into therapy activities report their patients are more engaged, more alert and demonstrate faster progress toward cognitive, communicative, and physical therapy goals.
Interactive Metronome Occupational Therapy
Interactive Metronome is one of the best occupational therapies available to treat Sensory Processing Disorders and other Developmental Disabilities. Interactive Metronome is an Auditory Intervention that can help children in San Diego who have issues maintaining focus in activities, be it school or with family or friends. Functional Integrated Therapeutic Services have Auditory Intervention Specialists on hand ready to help San Diego children with Occupational Therapy like Interactive Metronome.
What is Interactive Metronome Auditory Interventions?
A common issue with young children in Occupational Therapy is a lack of fine motor skills. With many developmental disabilities, it can be exceedingly difficult to perform even the most basic tasks because the disability causes motor performance to suffer. That is why we use Interactive Metronome as part of our Auditory Interventions Occupational Therapy. Interactive Metronome is when a child touches some kind of trigger in time with a beat coming through headphones on a computer. There is then real-time feedback on whether the child taps before, after or during the trigger, giving invaluable insight into how to improve reaction time and motor skills.
What Does Interactive Metronome Occupational Therapy Improve in San Diego Children?
Interactive Metronome is such an effective form of Auditory Intervention because of the wide range of improvements it can make in the lives of children with fine motor skill issues. Experiences differ from person to person, however, research and studies have shown that Interactive Metronome can lead to improves in the following skills:
Attention to detail and symptoms of ADHD and ADD
Regulating yourself in various social situations
Various forms of Mathematics
The ability to regulate the upper extremities
Athletic Performance in team sports and individual competitions
Reading ability in terms of advanced comprehension, speed & fluency
Motor skills, balance, and coordination
Both long-term and short-term memory
The ability to process information in a timely fashion.
Therapeutic Listening
Therapeutic Listening is intended to support individuals who experience challenges with sensory processing dysfunction, listening, attention, and communication. There are five different music series that feature over 45 albums to choose from, allowing the therapists to develop a custom program to suit the individual needs of each client.
The Listening Program
The Listening Program involves listening to acoustically modified instrumental music through high-quality headphones to reduce stress as well as improve focus, self-regulation, learning, memory, and more.