Results of the Tomatis® Program First Grade Self-contained Setting
The Tomatis® Listening Program that was implemented at Baker Academy occurred during a seven-month period. The results of the testing confirm a substantial gain in the domains of Communication, Daily Living Skills and Socialization. On the average, students gained between 13 months and 34 months within these domains during a seven-month time period. This is […]
Results of the Tomatis® Program within a Fifth Grade Setting
The students have shown improvement in auditory processing abilities. The students are better able to understand speech in the presence of background noise. This in turn assists them in tuning in and attending to language and learning. This is likely a result of intense exercise of the middle ear muscles through the application of Tomatis®. […]
A review of research done on Tomatis® auditory stimulation
A total of 35 studies were published on the impact of the Tomatis® Method of auditory stimulation. The largest number of publications deals with treating learning disabilities, showing that a variety of learning disabilities are effectively treated by the Tomatis® Method. Several small scale research projects on autism have been reported, showing that about 60% […]
The Tomatis® Method and its impact on children with echolalia in the autism spectrum
The objective of this research was to find out if the Tomatis® Method for auditory stimulation was a significant variable to reduce the problem of echolalia in children diagnosed with typical autism (Kanner) and atypical autism (Pervasive Development Disorder, Not Otherwise Specified, PDD-NOS) who attend the Tomatis® Centre in Puerto Rico. In order to obtain […]
Coherence between Tomatis® test and central auditory processing audiologic test battery in Children with Dyslexia
Dyslexia is a specific, language-based disorder, which characterizes by the difficulty id words decoding, which reflects insufficient abilities of phonologic processing. Developmental dyslexia, according to different authors, affects from 4% to 12% of school age population and is characterized by the difficulty in reading in a child with normal hearing and intelligence. Reading is a […]
Follow-up study on the effects of Tomatis® Method in communication, linguistic, cognitive and emotional skills in children aged 6 -7
Conclusions: Most of the achievements obtained through Tomatis® Method intervention are maintained in the long term. Reading and writing acquisition processes are enhanced with Tomatis® Method exposure, as well as in decoding components as in comprehensive. It is not possible to conclude whether or not social and family adjustments are enhanced in the long term […]
A pilot study on the potential use of the Tomatis® Method to improve l2 reading fluency
This was a pilot study that used the Tomatis® Method to see the effects it had on L2 reading fluency in a group of Taiwanese learners. Eight volunteers participated in this study undertaking 40-hours of before-and-after-experimental treatments. The results from the analysis showed that the participants had significant improvements in the areas of fluency, tone, […]
The Effects of the TOMATIS® Listening Training on the Spatial Sense
The results show significant improving effects of the Tomatis® Program on spatial perception sense. It is interesting to note that differences in the timely development have been discovered depending on the applied test material. The analysis of the 3DW test shows a long-term effect comparable with the “Extended Tomatis® Effect” that had been shown by […]
The Effect of Tomatis® Therapy on Children with Autism: Eleven Case Studies
This article presents a reanalysis of a previously reported study on the impact of the Tomatis® Method of auditory stimulation on subjects with autism. When analyzed as individual case studies, the data showed that six of the 11 subjects with autism demonstrated significant improvement from 90 hours of Tomatis® Therapy. Five subjects did not benefit […]
Report of the analysis of the relationship between the use of the Tomatis® Method and the development of key competences on 1330 children with and without special needs
This project was financed by the European Union and lead by the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Warsaw, Poland. Over a period of three years, 1330 pupils (with and without learning difficulties) from 62 Polish schools participated in the research. The results of the study demonstrate important positive effects of the Tomatis® Method. […]
