Low frequencies control the body – our posture, our gait, our pull against gravity, our up-right position in space, our rhythm and timing, our sense of direction and our sensory system. When these are off in your child, you can best bet that the language will be delayed or not come in age appropriately.  Low frequencies are very grounding. These frequencies are your foundation. It’s hard to climb higher when this foundation isn’t there – much like building a house… You can’t construct any floors before the foundation is set. Same idea with development and how frequencies of sound effect your health.

Going through Lollipop, you may see sensory integration issues right themselves, or moving in that direction. We often see posture changes, more body awareness, less tactile sensitivities, less oral sensitivities, less pickiness in food preferences, more tolerance to textures, able to have things worn on the head more, or hair and teeth brushing may not be so traumatic any longer.  With Lollipop, we are desensitizing the body to all of the hypersensitivities so these sensory issues may calm down and put the body back on track. Balance and coordination may also improve as well as fine and gross motor skills and handwriting. An overall self-regulation may be seen. Potty training has also been reported as a by-product of listening therapy if that is something your child needs to master as well!

So once the body is in-sync, the middle frequencies can come. These middle frequencies have everything to do with speech and language , focus and attention and concentration and memory. If your child has these types of issues, most likely they have body issues stemming from a lack of being able to perceive low frequencies. The low frequencies are a prelude to the middle frequencies.

Since the low frequencies are body based, hyper children may be calmed by this zone since they originally pick up too many high, stimulating frequencies and tend to keep moving and climbing all day long. It is typical for children to become very tired and drained in the low frequency. For parents with hyper children, giving them lows are quite a relief and tend to halt their excessive energy.

So, if the low frequencies are a must for the middle frequencies to be set, then the middle frequencies are a must for the high frequencies to be set. The high spectrum is responsible for energy, charging the brain, creativity, imaginary play/imagination, motor planning and other higher functioning skills. So children who are hyper are picking up too many high frequencies that give them too much energy and not enough lows to ground them and get their body in-sync. But if you have a child who is hard to motivate, is tired and drained, can’t get going, lacks creativity, organization, ability to motor plan, and even can’t peddle a bike, they aren’t perceiving high frequencies. Again, this is a developmental model: we crawl first (think body and low frequencies), not until we get up-right and vertical does language come (think speech and middle frequencies) and then the higher functioning skills (think imagination/motor planning and high frequencies).

If there is a break in this chain or a link is weak, you will get developmental delays or any numerous developmental issues. That’s why I developed Lollipop Listening Therapy. It re-sets the neurological system and lays down new brain cells enabling the child to pick up these lost skills.

Listening is a life-long process. Lollipop is not for a specific period of time. It can be used continuously throughout the years until the child’s listening goals are met.

Contact us for additional information at 571-435-3518 Eastern time in USA or at Sharon@LollipopListeningTherapy.com.

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“I can remember the frustration of not being able to talk. I knew what I wanted to say, but I could not get the words out, so I would just scream.”-Temple Grandin

Dr. Temple Grandin, a PhD in animal science and named in TIME Magazine’s 2010 list of the100 most influential people in the world was diagnosed as being autistic as a toddler. Experts at the time of her diagnoses suggested that she be institutionalized. Her mother refused their advice and pursued other avenues of education, including creating her own school. Grandin is a world famous spokesperson for people with autism and a role model to legions of people with and without developmental disabilities.

Sharon Ruben, author and mother of an autistic daughter named Ashley, attended a Grandin conference in 2002 to seek answers about her daughter’s disability. She writes, “Having been told by specialists that one day Ashley may be a “Temple Grandin” fueled me to learn all I could about what Ashley could become through this famous person—Ashley already had visual gifts….I read she [Grandin] thinks in terms of pictures, a video recorder constantly playing in her mind. She struggled with socializing and reading people’s emotions and lacked understanding of human relationships.”

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Do any of these sound like they fit your child? Even a few? Maybe a lot of them? We Can Help!

Here’s the thing…When your child is not taking in sensory information correctly, their neurological system can be out-of-sync, they could be delayed in their development and they may not be reaching their FULL potential. Some children with sensory integration dysfunction are just wired a little bit differently which makes sensory information sometime painful, late to register or not processed at all.

Here’s how we can help. Different frequencies of sound are tied to different brain and body functions. If your child has any of the issues above, they are not perceiving sound properly. I know it sounds a bit “odd” to think that the way they hear has something to do with their learning, but it’s so true. But it’s more than just “hearing”. It’s really about “listening” – a specialized form of hearing. Dr. Alfred Tomatis figured it out back in the 1950′s. “When the ears don’t perceive all the frequencies of sound, the voice won’t contain them” – a reason why children are non-verbal, non-social with a variety of sensory integration and auditory processing issues. They don’t “listen” properly – their ears are not taking in the information they need and keeping out the distracting information that they don’t need. It REALLY IS about the health of their EARS! Those middle ear muscles are so important to the whole equation. Maybe your child had a lot of ear infections early in life. Maybe they took antibiotics which damages the inner ear hair cells that aid in moving sound from the ear to the brain for processing. There can be a whole list of reasons for a listening problem. What they need now is to reverse their issues and turn their weaknesses into strengths.

To help your child reach their potential and beyond, we encourage you to learn about Lollipop Listening Therapy and all it has to offer not just your child, but even you too. Adults can do this listening program as well. You can listen right along with your child and reduce your stress, anxiety, depression and be happier and healthier. Who doesn’t want all of those things in today’s hectic world?  Learn more about our listening packages at www.LollipopListeningTherapy.com or call us at 571-435-3518, Eastern Time, USA . We are here to help your child be the best they can be! Now THAT’S “sound” advice!

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Reasons For Considering Lollipop Listening Therapy

• Does your child appear deaf (but isn’t) never turning around when you call their name?
• Are they hypersensitive to various sounds holding their ears to protect themselves from the pain of these sounds?
• Are they clumsy, uncoordinated and weak lacking body awareness?
• Do they not like to let their feet leave the ground?
• Do they show repetitive behaviors such as hand flapping, toe walking, stare continuously at fans or spin themselves uncontrollably?
• Do they have trouble paying attention, attending to a task or lack fine or gross motor skills?
• Do they have trouble with sequencing and organizational skills?
• Are they tactile and oral defensive neither wanting to touch nor eat certain textures?
• Are they a picky eater?
• Do they not like to have their hair or teeth brushed?
• Are they tired and lifeless or are they hyper and out of control?
• Do they have difficulties with speech and language, sound discrimination, communicating, socializing or spontaneously playing with others?
• Do they lack imaginative or creative play?

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So I’m so excited to see that this year, there is going to be even more reason for me to tune in and enjoy the Miss America pageant like I always do. The pageant this year will have Alexis Wineman, the first participant with autism. Her platform: Normal Is Just a Dryer Setting! I Love it! She is proving that she has risen above, and I’m sure even conquered (or at least suppressed) her fears of putting herself out there and competing on such a HUGE stage with all eyes not just upon her, but judging her…She is truly remarkable and a role model for all young girls with and without a developmental disorder.

Go get ‘em Alexis. We’ll be cheering for you!

But I wasn’t about to sit idle and accept that all I was seeing in Ashley presently was all I was going to get from her for years to come. I wasn’t going to let autism win! That’s not my personality to sit back and coil; or refrain from finding a solution. I’m a go-getter! Some people said to me to find a solution is to change who she is…change who you were given…My response was: “I wasn’t trying to change Ashley, I was trying to find Ashley.” Ashley was locked up inside herself and she couldn’t help herself…so I had to. They said back then there’s no cure for autism. They still say it today. But  I wanted to challenge that.. If I wanted Ashley back, I had to find “her cure”. The cure for autism will not be one cure. It will be what works for your child. They are all so mysteriously different and come with different directions, so to speak. But we found Ashley’s cure in our approach to retraining the ears to listen – through listening therapy. Who would have thought I need to enlist Mozart to help me retrieve Ashley from her world and bring sanity to mine?

At two and half years old, when I started Ashley in her Tomatis auditory training program, there was no one to bounce anything off of. There was no one to consult with like people can do with me today. I put all my hope into this therapy, and I dove in with eyes closed, with both feet, and with high expectations. It was that important to me. And trust me, back then, it was uber expensive to go to a center…And the miles we drove daily were ridiculous…for years and years….But I was ready for the journey. I didn’t know a whole lot about it, but from what I read on line – it sold me. If it was going to correct all the things I needed correcting in Ashley like it claimed, I wanted in on it…It was all I had left. The other avenues of conventional therapy like speech and OT were not penetrating Ashley. We wasted many, many sessions of speech and OT, because Ashley just couldn’t connect – physically, verbally, socially or emotionally…Although she was VERY emotional (tantrum was her middle name). She couldn’t connect, because she had no tools to use. As auditory training was taking hold, Ashley was learning to use her body, learning to process sounds, learning to talk, starting to look us in the eye, took the thumb out of her mouth and actually spoke to us…! I’ll never forget the day she said, “I WANT COOKIE!” We nearly drove off the road! And that was just DAY 2! Then she started to tolerate new foods! That was amazing to see a child who doesn’t eat, now try something! Over the years we spent in auditory training (and yes, it took years, this is not a quick fix, I just want to state that for the record…), she was now enjoying who she was and what she could do, and we were reconnecting with her as well…something we tried to do from the very start. Oh, and the potty training was a bonus. Yes, auditory training will jump-start that potty training in these children…now they have a sense of “self”. That’s what it takes. That was the icing for us…I needed that if I was to put her in her Montessori school. They didn’t take kids in diapers!

After Ashley’s success with auditory training, her recovery and subsequent removal from the autism spectrum,  I knew I needed to help parents; that was my calling…help them find a way out of autism for their children. I helped Ashley, now I had so much information to help them. I founded Sound Therapy Systems and developed Lollipop Listening Therapy years later, because I wanted to give back; pay if forward… I spent many, many years retrieving Ashley from autism with the help of auditory training. I also did the therapy myself and saw remarkable changes in my own listening. But I saw another way to affect these kids by pulling on the middle ear muscles more effectively than even that which Ashley received. Technology has changed since we started Tomatis in 2001 and we can do more with sound waves than ever before and really manipulate these frequencies so they affect the neurological system. I spent years and years in the studio developing and perfecting Lollipop so that it benefited these children who needed jump-starting. It’s important for parents to understand the underlying premise behind this therapy: when your child’s ears don’t capture all the frequencies of sound, those frequencies will not be contained in your child’s voice and their body will be out-of-sync because of it – that means they will not be able to learn language, talk, communicate, socialize, motor plan, use their fine and gross motor skills, and perform at an age-appropriate level. I am all about awakening these children, just like Ashley awakened. Now I help parents all over the world reconnect their children to language and communication using Lollipop Listening Therapy.

Nothing has been more rewarding than to see these children progress and to hear from a parent that their child is doing things they’ve never done before now being on Lollipop. Even at week 2 or week 3, I’m getting their data back that show the leaps and bounds they are making so quickly on the program. So my message to everyone with a child on the autism spectrum or with any developmental delays: “Your child CAN overcome their obstacles by retraining their ears and brain to listen better.” It’s all about the health of their ears. Sound is THAT important. We can affect the brain at any age. It’s not too late for any of them. When you listen better, you really do learn better. It can be life-altering for these children…

Please take a look at all the pages on my website www.LollipopListeningTherapy.com. You can learn so much there. Most likely your child has sensory integration and auditory processing issues. Parents tell me their child has these issues, but they don’t know exactly what these are. They know their child can’t talk, but it’s so much more than that! Their doctor has never educated them as to what it is…They’ve just typed it on a report for them and left them to their own devices to find this stuff out!…But I will explain it to you and how Lollipop plays a role in all of that. My website is very comprehensive and it’s like a classroom. Learn everything you can so that you can educate yourself, educate your family and friends, even your doctors that don’t tell you this stuff because, they don’t know themselves. Just because they’ve never heard of auditory training or Lollipop doesn’t mean you shouldn’t consider it for your child. They are more by-the-book, conventional therapy people. THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX when you consider treatment for your child with special needs. And arm yourself with all the tools you need to help your child. When you purchase Lollipop, I am personally going to help you on this journey. You get me! And all my experience, education, go ahead and pick my brain…I will gladly give you my strategies and recommendations….Even what I did with Ashley…How often can you get a mom who recovered her child on the phone? Like, never! They’re on a book tour!…or you have to go through their publicist! You can always get me by phone, email, text, and soon Skype.  My clients can attest to that…they call, I get right back to them. They are important and what they have to ask me is important. Why wouldn’t you want to learn all you can from a mom who’s been there? Now that’s “sound advice”! www.LollipopListeningTherapy.com

I look forward to helping you, help your child!

Best to all,

Sharon

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This study of more than 96,000 children is trying to answer the question: Is something happening with the mother’s immune system during preganancy that interrupts the developing child’s brain? Is there an immune response coinciding with the mother getting the flu or having a sustained fever that is triggering the child developing autism? Findings show that if the mother had the flu while carrying her child, she was twice as likely to have a child later diagnosed with autism. If she had a fever that lasted a week or longer — related to the flu or another illness, she was three times as likely to have an autistic child. Also noted was that women who took certain antibiotics during their pregancy were more likely to have a child later diagnosed with autism.

Mounting evidence by researchers points to an inflammatory processes that may be turned on at a critical stage in the fetus’ development that later accounts for changes in behaviors and delays in developmental milestones associated autism and autism spectrum disorders.

Health officials said the finding amplifies their recommendations that the flu shot be given to pregnant women, women thinking about conceiving, or anyone of child-bearing potential.

Read more here: http://vitals.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/12/15056697-flu-fever-linked-with-autism-in-pregnancy-study?lite

Lollipop Listening Therapy can be your first defense for children with Autism, ADD/ADHD, Dyslexia, Apraxia, Speech Delay, Auditory Processing Disorder, Sensory Integration Dysfunction and other developmental disorders

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Parents fill these observation forms out weekly and return them to us. We are capturing what they are seeing every week in their child as communicated to us through these forms. It is from their constant observations that we are tracking these data and can see the benefits of Lollipop.

Please keep in mind that a listening therapy takes time. Lollipop is done for a minimum of 16 weeks. Some changes that haven’t shown up on these graphs may possibly show up at a later time in the child’s therapy. Knowing every child is different, your child may move faster or slower than these data show. Each child brings his own unique characteristics to this therapy and the rate of change is dependent on many factors. However, this therapy will really be continued for months and even years to come to meet the child’s goals as identified at the onset of the program.

To learn more about how your child can start

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YOUR CHILD HAS NEVER HAD A LOLLIPOP LIKE THIS BEFORE!

Hi Sharon, I would like to share some feedback with you.

We are in the midst of preparing for a move to Thailand so things have been extremely hectic around here, but we have faithfully followed the program without fail. I know I should be sending in the feedback forms, it’s just that my son has been improving so quickly that I do not know where to start grading the improvements.

3 days ago, his teachers in pre-school actually cornered my wife and told her that our son has begun joining in the sing-along sessions as well as verbal participation in class lessons. He can now respond accurately to simple instructions and comprehends most of our conversation with him. His eye contact has improved to a level where he shines emotions out of them, and his tip toeing has decreased significantly. He is also very keen to share anything that he finds interesting, and pointing them out to us now on a regular basis. For those familiar with autism, I believe this is a key area of improvement that they will look for.

We are very excited to see his progress and can’t wait for him to complete his first 16 week cycle. Please accept our heartiest gratitude for creating this program and sharing it with the world, I use the word “share” because you can’t really put a price on something this remarkable. Thank you.

PS: Quick note to share on the headphones, in case anyone brings this up in the future. He absolutely hated to have anything on his head, but by the 2^nd session (Week 1) he doesn’t notice it anymore, and he started asking for “music” towards the end of Week 2, now he is the one demanding for his “music” every evening, so the Gregorian Chants came in handy for the weekends.

Best wishes,

Brian, Malaysia

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Lollipop Listening Therapy is really making its mark in the world of auditory training. We just launched it last year, and the data that is coming in is proving that our exclusive protocol of retraining the ears and brain to process sound better – different than any other listening program out there- is very effective in helping a child overcome their obstacles. We are seeing changes rapidly. Even faster than I expected. Granted, every child is different and progresses at their own pace, but what we are seeing with Lollipop so early on in a child’s program that is getting their bodies back in sync and normalizing their auditory processing at such a rapid pace is making me believe that we are touching upon something very unique and special in Lollipop that other listening therapies just can’t match. The data don’t lie!

A listening therapy program is something that is done for sometimes years in order to create sustaining changes. In only 6 short weeks, this little boy is seeing such fabulous changes. He is only about 1/3 of the way through his “initial” program of 16 weeks and this is what is happening with him so soon that has his parents tremendously satisfied with Lollipop Listening Therapy. 

We don’t need peer-reviewed journals spilling over with data to show how effective a therapy can be. I don’t know too many parents that scour journals looking for data to back a therapy. They rely on parents who have tried it and have reported on it. Their child’s progress on it is what drives a therapy forward and makes a buzz with other parents. We are most grateful for the buzz parents have made about our product. Lollipop Listening Therapy should be on EVERY parent’s radar!  To try Lollipop, go to www.SoundTherapySystems.com and learn how we can make lasting changes in YOUR child. FOLLOW US ON TWITTER!

Ratings Key

1 – much worse than usual; 2 – a little worse than usual; 3 –  no change (or not applicable due to age); 4 – slight improvement, still needs work on; 5 – a lot of improvement, still needs a little more work; 6 - steady weekly improvement, very satisfied with changes; 7- goal almost met; 8 - goal met