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The Listening Program ® (TLP) Bone Conduction iListen System
Using Music and Science to Improve Speech, Language and Listening
Often, the first step in improving speech and language is to improve one’s listening ability. How we pay attention to sound has a direct impact on what we hear and what we say.
The Listen Program (TLP) is a portable, music-based auditory stimulation program that requires only one or two 15-minute listening sessions per day. Typically, TLP is conducted in two cycles of 10 weeks each. During the program, specially produced music is used to stimulate the auditory system and improve the way sound is processed in the brain with repeated exposure. The end result can include improved speech and language skills and best of all, TLP is easy and fun.
How it Works. Every patient’s experience with TLP is custom-tailored. Throughout the program, patients listen to beautiful, specially engineered classical music on high-quality headphones on a preloaded iPod Nano called iListen. The purpose is to expose the listener to different timing, frequencies, and volumes, and simulation of movement – which stimulate different areas of the brain through the middle ear muscles.
The newest delivery of the beautiful classical music is by a preloaded iPod, called iListen. Bone Conduction is now available in a portable unit, whereby the music is heard by vibration of the sound through the skull in addition to the auditory mode via the ears. Bone Conduction results in faster and more dramatic changes.
Who can benefit from TLP? Children as young as two years of age may participate in TLP. Those who are sensitive to loud or high pitched sounds benefit greatly from the gradual desensitization that TLP provides over time. Those who are working on speech or language skills and auditory processing weaknesses will find that supplementing therapy with TLP boosts learning. TLP can also help those working to reduce foreign accents. To learn more about Foreign Accent Reduction at Alliance Speech & Hearing, please visit our main services page.
TLP as part of a larger treatment plan. TLP is typically used in conjunction with traditional therapeutic techniques for accelerated results. It is not meant as a stand-alone program.
Improving Literacy. Learning Ears®, is the newest program to improve reading fluency and comprehension and an added layer during use of TLP. It is suitable for 5 year olds and older. Learning Ears maximizes the power of one’s own voice to improve reading skills as the student practices simple activities guided by an adult at home while doing TLP. The Provoice System is used for Learning Ears, which has a microphone attached to the headset. The student then imitates and reads aloud sounds as they are spelled in English, gradually increasing through the paragraph level, depending on their age. They hear their voice amplified as they read aloud, which gives them immediate feedback.
