Results to Expect with Therapeutic Listening
Thousands of practitioners worldwide are trained in and use Therapeutic Listening within a sensory integration context to improve the lives of numerous individuals. Therapists and caregivers frequently report a broad array of changes in the clinic, home, and community environments. Commonly reported changes include:
Home/School Changes
- Improved social interactions
- Improved communication skills
- Enhanced ability to focus
- Ability to make transitions or changes in routine easier
- Increased engagement in the world
- Improvements in sleeping
- Regulation of hunger and thirst cycle regularity
- Toilet training/cessation of bed wetting
- Regulation of mood and energy level (overall a happier child, less irritable, less hyperactivity or low arousal)
- Improved ability to respond to sounds and verbal directions
- Increased participation in and exploration of playground equipment (swings, slides, climbing structures)
Clinic Changes
- Praxis and motor planning (coming up with an idea, planning and then completing the task)
- Decreased fear of movement and fear of heights
- Improved bilateral motor coordination (coordination between the left and right, the top and bottom, and the front and back side of the body)
- Improvement in fine motor skills including handwriting
- Better timing and sequencing of motor skills
- Improved ability to perceive and navigate space
- Ability to move on stable and dynamic surfaces
- Reduction in sensory defensive behaviors (abnormal responses to sensory stimuli like sounds, touch, taste, pain)
To gain a more complete understanding of Therapeutic Listening in a treatment context, please refer to our case studies. Here you will find reports of positive change and gain, chronologies of treatment, and therapists' accounts of their own clinical reasoning during the creation of Therapeutic Listening protocols and sensory diets for their clients.