AUDITORY PROCESSING AWAKENING
Auditory Processing Awakening (APA) is different than music therapy. Music therapy, centers upon the psychological effect music and music making as relaxation and comfort are derived from the familiarity of the thematic content or the making of rhythm. Auditory training on the other hand, is based upon the neurological effect of sound upon the nervous system. A cortical change takes place from the direct application of sound frequencies, especially when applied through headphones. Our APA and other programmes use sound for its vibration impact on the brain. While APA uses classical psychoacoustically modified music that provides a sound therapy benefit, its primary purpose is to deliver filtered and non-filtered range of frequency sounds to the ear and brain. The process of auditory stimulation reeducates the hearing mechanism to take in a full spectrum of sound. In short, then, the goal is improved auditory tonal processing.
Resonance is the key phrase when discussing auditory training. Resonance can be defined as the effect of one vibration upon another. In this instance, resonance can be thought of as the ramification of sound vibrations upon our physical bodies. We know, from hundreds of years of research in physics, that one vibrating force can alter the frequency of another. Metal tuning forks are common, dramatic example: a tuning fork that has been stricken will cause a nearby similar tuning fork that has not been stricken to being vibrating. They share a resonant or similar frequency. Sound Frequencies moving through air can literally cause an insert adjacent mass (of similar resonance) to begin vibrating. For example, a tuning fork may cause another fork to vibrate, but it would not cause a rock to vibrate because they don not share resonant frequencies.
Another important facet of resonance is entrainment. Resonance relates to tone, entrainment to rhythm. In the context of music and sound, entrainment may be viewed as the process whereby our major internal body systems speed up or slow down to match an external periodic rhythm. When we see someone tapping their foot or gingerly moving to music, they are responding-or entraining-to an external rhythm. Internally, a physical response is also taking place: brainwaves, heart rate, and respiration are speeding up or slowing down to match that ongoing rhythmic pulse.
Resonance is the key phrase when discussing auditory training. Resonance can be defined as the effect of one vibration upon another. In this instance, resonance can be thought of as the ramification of sound vibrations upon our physical bodies. We know, from hundreds of years of research in physics, that one vibrating force can alter the frequency of another. Metal tuning forks are common, dramatic example: a tuning fork that has been stricken will cause a nearby similar tuning fork that has not been stricken to being vibrating. They share a resonant or similar frequency. Sound Frequencies moving through air can literally cause an insert adjacent mass (of similar resonance) to begin vibrating. For example, a tuning fork may cause another fork to vibrate, but it would not cause a rock to vibrate because they don not share resonant frequencies.
Another important facet of resonance is entrainment. Resonance relates to tone, entrainment to rhythm. In the context of music and sound, entrainment may be viewed as the process whereby our major internal body systems speed up or slow down to match an external periodic rhythm. When we see someone tapping their foot or gingerly moving to music, they are responding-or entraining-to an external rhythm. Internally, a physical response is also taking place: brainwaves, heart rate, and respiration are speeding up or slowing down to match that ongoing rhythmic pulse.
The purpose of this programme is to improve your ability to perceive a full range of frequencies and to help you listen actively. Active listening improves tonal processing, and improved tonal processing by the ear and brain supports better auditory sequential processing and language processing.
Choosing a Schedule
There are many factors which have to be taken in to consideration when choosing a schedule, Cayman Echoic Staff member will suggest a certain schedule depending on your child’s or your needs. Schedules consist of 20min, 30min of 60min sessions, depending on the type of Programme you choose.
Auditory Processing Awakening has 5 different programmes to choose from so after a through interview with Cayman Echoic Staff we suggest which programme would be better suited for you or your child, this programme would then work on the areas you want to improve, be it memory, attention, creativity, etc.
Auditory Processing Awakening has 5 different programmes to choose from so after a through interview with Cayman Echoic Staff we suggest which programme would be better suited for you or your child, this programme would then work on the areas you want to improve, be it memory, attention, creativity, etc.