Frequently Asked Questions
WHAT CAN I EXPECT ON MY FIRST VISIT?
Each first visit will include testing for a person’s sound responses. The DETP® is the mandated starting visit unless previously arranged with Ms. Davis for the wellness program called BioAcoustics. The client will be seated in a chair with headphones on. It is anticipated that they will sit quietly for this portion and respond as necessary. If they are unable to do so, then Ms. Davis requires a ‘support’ person to help the person keep the headphones on during the testing. Ms. Davis will be able to watch for the person’s response. During the DETP®, the ear canals will be occluded at least once if not twice. Advanced DETP® test portions may require additional ear canal blockage but this testing will only be determined by Ms. Davis at the time of the original DETP® test and will require a second visit. For those clients who have difficulty having their ears touched, parental support is required, and/or the client should be told to expect this level of touch. Lastly, a voiceprint is made for each person.
The actual sound testing portion may only take 10-15 minutes. Another portion of the DETP® is the review and scoring of the Case History form. Ms. Davis will review this Case History form at the evaluation. A review of The Davis Model of Sound Intervention® is discussed so that the client will understand how the results are determined. Ms. Davis then determines the sound therapy protocol and discusses the therapy options with the client. She will go over how to obtain the specific therapies at the same time. Ms. Davis will email a summary report to the client.
Because testing is now done only at Outreach locations, parents can bring toys for the child to play with once the testing is finished. Some parents prefer to bring a 'support person' to be with the child while the parent is listening to the results of the testing. No food is to be brought into the Outreach test room.
WHAT HAPPENS IF MY CHILD WILL NOT WEAR HEADPHONES?
This is the number one concern for parents with young children with sensory issues. We have found that by supporting (holding) the headphones on, parents or one of their own support persons can help the child through the testing session. Ms. Davis has designed a technique that helps her identify responses to sound with the headphones being held in place and often can accomplish what she needs in little time even though the child must be fussing. Ms. Davis is unable to hold the child or hold on headphones while testing so if this is an issue, a support person is necessary.
HOW CAN I PREPARE MY CHILD TO WEAR HEADPHONES?
Although preparing a child to wear headphones isn't always necessary, it is understood that parents want to ease their child's dislikes and support them with positive experiences. Very often the child is very sensitive to the feel of the headphones and/or the direct sound received through them. In order to gently build up a tolerance to wearing headphones, the parents can begin with introducing headphones while listening to something the child enjoys. The intensity level of the music should be very soft.
Begin by putting the headphones on without sound for a very short period of time and build up the length of time over a period of days. Initially redirect the child to some other task such as playing with a favorite toy. Staying away from computers and television while introducing and listening with headphones is very important.
The type of headphone initially tried can be a Walkman headphone type. Eventually a circumaural headphone (one fitting over and around the ear) should be introduced. The headphones should also be of a very good quality. The testing earphones are tightly fitted headphones. While Ms. Davis is no longer administering the various therapies, most therapy headphones are not as tightly fitted. Gradually build up the intensity of sound through the headphones. Initially for some children, the sound may seem too soft for the adult ear but that may be the only way for the child to withstand the headphones being on. On a scale of 1 to 10, before the DETP® never increase the sound to a level louder than a 3.
Also be aware that Ms. Davis does not need a child to feel comfortable with headphones on to administer the DETP®. However, if headphones are an issue, then the support person is required.
WHAT IS AUDITORY INTEGRATION TRAINING (AIT)?
Auditory Integration Training (AIT) as utilized through The Tree of Sound Enhancement Therapy® reflects any program that incorporates the concepts of Dr. Guy Berard, the French ear, nose, and throat physician who developed AIT. His concept works on the principle that if sound has been partially blocked or becomes painful, successive flexing and extensions of the middle ear muscles will increase mobility and decrease pain. This stimuli influences portions of the brain that correlate with the auditory pathways. When alternating low and high pitched sounds are introduced randomly to the auditory system, blood flow to the area is increased and the brain is also stimulated, thereby adding to the overall positive effect. This principle then is based on mechanotherapy, i.e., improvement by mechanical means.
As a client of The Davis Center, the term AIT refers to all programs using this concept. Ms. Davis will provide practitioners name who can provide the therapy. Clients will return to Ms. Davis for follow up testing once finished to ensure that the protocol of sound-based therapies and the anticipated results are being obtained.
WHY DOES AUDITORY INTEGRATION TRAINING (AIT) WORK?
Dr. Berard explains that the AIT sessions exercise the muscles in the middle ear cavity. The program apparently strengthens the muscles and improves the body's reaction to sensory overload. He feels that at some time in the person's life (in-utero, at birth, or after birth) something occurred to inhibit the body's normal reaction to sensory auditory overload and the body has not recovered.
The brain, when deprived of age appropriate stimuli, does not work to capacity. By stimulating the auditory areas of the brain, the auditory cortex reorganizes and improvement is noted. Research with animals demonstrated that the brain has the capacity to shift thresholds and rearrange circuits. It is suspected that the stimulation of the auditory areas with Dr. Berard's AIT helps with the threshold shift.
Ms. Davis, with her in-house research, has further demonstrated that AIT works specifically on re-training the acoustic reflex muscle in the middle ear. Consistently, 89-91% of her clients have measurably changed this muscle to work within normal limits.
WHAT DOES AIT INVOLVE?
Not everyone benefits from AIT. The Diagnostic Evaluation for Therapy Protocol (DETP®) is important for determining if AIT will benefit anyone. When administered, AIT consists of 20 one-half hour listening sessions using special listening devices. Various music selections are chosen for their broad sound spectrum, energy and intensity. The device randomly selects high and low pass filters and amplifies and/or filters the frequencies along the sound spectrum as indicated by the results of the Sound Sensitivity Test. The participant listens to the music through special headphones.
Sessions are twice a day for 10 days and must be separated by a minimum of three hours and extend over a two week period which can be separated by a weekend. When receiving Berard AIT, a mid test is performed after the first 10 sessions and the third after the 20th session. When doing the home programs, only a final Sound Sensitivity Test is administered.
IS AIT THE SAME AS THE TOMATIS® METHOD?
Absolutely not! Ms. Davis is trained in both methods. Through her own research, she has discovered that AIT works on ones "sense of hearing"-that may include hypersensitivity (hearing too well) or hyposensitivity (tuning out sound). The Tomatis® Method works more specifically on processing skills-both auditory and vestibular. It also addresses a different type of sound hypersensitivity that is not addressed with AIT. Understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the ear is very important because it is this knowledge that helps explain the difference between the two methods.
WHAT IS A LISTENING TRAINING PROGRAM?
Listening Training Programs are applied at The Trunk of The Tree of Sound Enhancement Therapy®. They are modeled after the work of Dr. Alfred Tomatis. The Tomatis® Method is an innovative program of sound stimulation, audio-vocal activities, and consultation, which was developed by the French physician Alfred A. Tomatis. It has been used throughout the world for over sixty years for both the correction of language, communication, and learning difficulties and for personal growth.
The Tomatis Method® does not concern itself with hearing, but with the functional, social, and psychological factors that bear on listening, communication, language, motor control, learning and health in general. Dr. Tomatis looked at Listening as the active ability, intention, and desire to focus on the sounds that we want to analyze and to reject the ones we do not want. Hearing instead, is the passive reception of sound.
The Tomatis Method® works simultaneously at 3 levels:
1. Functional: Establishing good functional use of both vestibular and cochlear listening. Vestibular: perceives and processes input of internal information through posture and body movement. Cochlear: perceives and processes input of external information through language.
2. Emotional: Establishes emotional desire to use the auditory system, not tune out.
3. Relational: Both the functional and emotional systems improve the relational aspect of the individual to self, others, and the environment.
These programs all include stimulating the connection between the voice, the ear, and the brain and must include sound generated and sent to the body through air conduction vibration and bone conduction vibration, as well as filtered and gated music, and active voice work. These programs are brain intensive so must be done with frequency, duration and intensity to maximize the stimulation for brain change.
WHAT IS "THE TOMATIS EFFECT"?
Dr. Tomatis discovered the relationship between audition and phonation. The ear/voice connection was first demonstrated by Dr. Tomatis to the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Science in 1957. His discovery was referred to as "The Tomatis Effect." It can be best demonstrated through the three laws.
Law 1: The voice only contains the harmonics that the ear can hear.
Law 2: If you give the possibility to the ear to correctly hear the distorted frequencies of sound that are not well heard, these are immediately and unconsciously restored into the voice.
Law 3: The imposed audition sufficiently maintained over time results in permanently modifying the audition and phonation.
WHAT IS "THE DAVIS ADDENDUM® TO THE TOMATIS EFFECT"?
Ms. Davis discovered a further relationship between audition, phonation and the brain. In November 2004, Ms. Davis introduced this relationship at the Acoustical Society of America as The Davis Addendum to the Tomatis Effect. She connected the frequency output of the ear, known as spontaneous otoacoustic emissions, and the irregular vocal pattern frequencies observed with vocal analysis 100% of the time. She created two additional laws:
Law 1: The ear emits the same stressed frequencies that are
emitted by the voice.
Law 2: When complementary or supplementary frequencies of
stressed frequencies are introduced via sound vibration to
the ear, vocal patterns regain coherence.
These new laws further established the voice-ear-brain connection, and encourage further research in this interpretation. They enhance the connection between the Tomatis® Method and BioAcoustics™, further clarifying the cyclical pattern of how the body uses receptive and expressive sound.
ANY ADDITIONAL LISTENING TRAINING PROGRAMS?
Ms. Davis has found that the EnListen® program is an effective Listening Training Program. This is a program that people can use in the comfort of their home with very effective results. This program was developed by Dr.’s Billie and Kirk Thompson, Sound Listening Corporation and has been utilized by both practitioners and learning centers both in the US and around the world.
WHY IS RHYTHM IMPORTANT? (THE SEED)
The universe works on precisely timed cycles or rhythmic patterns. Our natural timing or "rhythmicity" allows the human brain to: 1) plan and sequence thoughts and actions, 2) recognize that patterns exist in its environment as they occur, 3) connect actions and thought patterns with consequences as they occur, 4) perform complex problem solving activities such as copying shapes, writing words, language, social behavior, and other academics, and 5) learn from its experiences and mistakes.
The Seed of The Tree of Sound Enhancement Therapy® incorporates body rhythms as the seed because our basal body rhythms are an inherent part of how our body functions. We cannot function without our heart beating, our breathing patterns, or our cellular patterns. When our body rhythms are 'in sync', our body functions better and our brain channels our rhythmicity better. We perform better!
Cymatherapy® is one of The Seed therapies and Ms. Davis will be continuing to offer this sound-based therapy to her clients.
WHAT CAN BIOACOUSTICS DO FOR YOU?
Through a personal voice spectral sample and analysis, the field of BioAcoustics can develop a protocol of wellness management, which uses the sound frequencies emitted by the human body. These sounds are the tools for the human body to reverse its own disease. The analysis provides a report that identifies a variety of possible health challenges from musculoskeletal to emotional by reviewing the body's irregular patterns.
BioAcoustics is also one of the sound-based therapies which will continue to be offered by Ms. Davis.
Each client is evaluated individually and each program is designed specifically for that person. Monitoring is done using a "best case scenario" approach as suggested by the National Institute of Health. Change is expected and monitored under the direction of the practitioner. Adjustments are made to the program based on a reassessment or until the desired results are achieved. The programs can be altered based on objective and subjective feedback from the client, evaluation, physician directives, laboratory findings and the relief and/or acceleration of symptoms. The initial time span involved can be as short as a few hours while monitoring can continue for as long as desired.
HOW TO START BIOACOUSTICS?
BioAcoustics requires two visits. The Initial Evaluation consists of a general intake process and the taking of a voice spectral sample (voice print). It is important for the participant to inform the practitioner of any current medical conditions and any history of seizures.(Once Ms. Davis has met the client, it may be possible to take the voiceprint over a landline phone on subsequent visits.) A follow-up appointment (within two weeks) is made to discuss the analysis of the voice spectral sample and to introduce the sound frequencies that will help the person make individual change. The individual is given a number of sounds to evaluate while reclining in a comfortable chair and connected to biofeedback equipment. The test sounds are generated by a patented unit called the SMAD™, (Self Management Auditory Device), a device developed by Sound Health Alternatives. The participant's responses are monitored by the BARA (BioAcoustics Research Associate, the credential necessary to administer BioAcoustics), and the participant is asked to provide feedback regarding their physical and/or emotional reactions to determine the best frequencies. The participant's sounds are entered into a "Tone Box" and he/she takes the sounds home to be listened to through "Walkman type" headphones. The voice spectral analysis report can also be shared with the person's personal physician for review.
DO I NEED TO DO BIOACOUSTICS MORE THAN ONCE?
As the sounds are meant to help the individual with their well being, it is important that subsequent follow-up visits and reassessments occur. Ms. Davis requires a one year commitment of reassessments every three months for a total of 4 visits. The most significant aspect of the program that influences the outcome is this re-assessment process. Monitoring and program adjustment is essential if long-term physical and emotional issues are to be influenced.
ARE THERE SIDE EFFECTS TO SOUND THERAPY?
Within the process of using sound-based therapy, Ms. Davis describes the person's responses as though in a "Cycle of Sound", reflecting the reception and expression of sound vibration of the body. This process is inherent in the connection between the voice, the ear, and the brain. As with any cyclical pattern, there will be high positive change and there will be low negative response. After any therapy, the body goes through these highs and lows until the cycles are minimally noticed-kind of like a wave going out through the water until it dissipates and isn't noticed any more.
Because of this cycle, 'side effects' are a good thing, because they are demonstrating that a change is occurring. Sometimes the 'side effects' are extremely noticeable such as an autistic child beginning a response known as 'flapping' or having a return of a previously eliminated response such as 'spinning'. If a new response occurs, it shows that there is a need for the body to learn and work through that response. Sometimes the new response disappears on its own and other times, the client is referred to the appropriate supportive therapy such as occupational therapy. If a previously eliminated response returns, that often means that the child never had the chance to develop that skill or response fully during earlier development and the brain is saying that it needs to integrate this response to its fullest so that development can move beyond it. Again, if the response doesn't disappear on its own, then a referral to a supportive therapy is recommended.
For others, 'side effects' are minimal and the outside observers may just notice that the person 'has matured'. There is something more age appropriate about the person. The person has recovered from the changes and is functioning from a more foundational level. Sometimes, the inner body has made change which may not be immediately noticeable to the person or those around them. But in 6 months to a year, the person is achieving more, is more emotionally stable, can communicate more, and is functioning better overall.
Each first visit will include testing for a person’s sound responses. The DETP® is the mandated starting visit unless previously arranged with Ms. Davis for the wellness program called BioAcoustics. The client will be seated in a chair with headphones on. It is anticipated that they will sit quietly for this portion and respond as necessary. If they are unable to do so, then Ms. Davis requires a ‘support’ person to help the person keep the headphones on during the testing. Ms. Davis will be able to watch for the person’s response. During the DETP®, the ear canals will be occluded at least once if not twice. Advanced DETP® test portions may require additional ear canal blockage but this testing will only be determined by Ms. Davis at the time of the original DETP® test and will require a second visit. For those clients who have difficulty having their ears touched, parental support is required, and/or the client should be told to expect this level of touch. Lastly, a voiceprint is made for each person.
The actual sound testing portion may only take 10-15 minutes. Another portion of the DETP® is the review and scoring of the Case History form. Ms. Davis will review this Case History form at the evaluation. A review of The Davis Model of Sound Intervention® is discussed so that the client will understand how the results are determined. Ms. Davis then determines the sound therapy protocol and discusses the therapy options with the client. She will go over how to obtain the specific therapies at the same time. Ms. Davis will email a summary report to the client.
Because testing is now done only at Outreach locations, parents can bring toys for the child to play with once the testing is finished. Some parents prefer to bring a 'support person' to be with the child while the parent is listening to the results of the testing. No food is to be brought into the Outreach test room.
WHAT HAPPENS IF MY CHILD WILL NOT WEAR HEADPHONES?
This is the number one concern for parents with young children with sensory issues. We have found that by supporting (holding) the headphones on, parents or one of their own support persons can help the child through the testing session. Ms. Davis has designed a technique that helps her identify responses to sound with the headphones being held in place and often can accomplish what she needs in little time even though the child must be fussing. Ms. Davis is unable to hold the child or hold on headphones while testing so if this is an issue, a support person is necessary.
HOW CAN I PREPARE MY CHILD TO WEAR HEADPHONES?
Although preparing a child to wear headphones isn't always necessary, it is understood that parents want to ease their child's dislikes and support them with positive experiences. Very often the child is very sensitive to the feel of the headphones and/or the direct sound received through them. In order to gently build up a tolerance to wearing headphones, the parents can begin with introducing headphones while listening to something the child enjoys. The intensity level of the music should be very soft.
Begin by putting the headphones on without sound for a very short period of time and build up the length of time over a period of days. Initially redirect the child to some other task such as playing with a favorite toy. Staying away from computers and television while introducing and listening with headphones is very important.
The type of headphone initially tried can be a Walkman headphone type. Eventually a circumaural headphone (one fitting over and around the ear) should be introduced. The headphones should also be of a very good quality. The testing earphones are tightly fitted headphones. While Ms. Davis is no longer administering the various therapies, most therapy headphones are not as tightly fitted. Gradually build up the intensity of sound through the headphones. Initially for some children, the sound may seem too soft for the adult ear but that may be the only way for the child to withstand the headphones being on. On a scale of 1 to 10, before the DETP® never increase the sound to a level louder than a 3.
Also be aware that Ms. Davis does not need a child to feel comfortable with headphones on to administer the DETP®. However, if headphones are an issue, then the support person is required.
WHAT IS AUDITORY INTEGRATION TRAINING (AIT)?
Auditory Integration Training (AIT) as utilized through The Tree of Sound Enhancement Therapy® reflects any program that incorporates the concepts of Dr. Guy Berard, the French ear, nose, and throat physician who developed AIT. His concept works on the principle that if sound has been partially blocked or becomes painful, successive flexing and extensions of the middle ear muscles will increase mobility and decrease pain. This stimuli influences portions of the brain that correlate with the auditory pathways. When alternating low and high pitched sounds are introduced randomly to the auditory system, blood flow to the area is increased and the brain is also stimulated, thereby adding to the overall positive effect. This principle then is based on mechanotherapy, i.e., improvement by mechanical means.
As a client of The Davis Center, the term AIT refers to all programs using this concept. Ms. Davis will provide practitioners name who can provide the therapy. Clients will return to Ms. Davis for follow up testing once finished to ensure that the protocol of sound-based therapies and the anticipated results are being obtained.
WHY DOES AUDITORY INTEGRATION TRAINING (AIT) WORK?
Dr. Berard explains that the AIT sessions exercise the muscles in the middle ear cavity. The program apparently strengthens the muscles and improves the body's reaction to sensory overload. He feels that at some time in the person's life (in-utero, at birth, or after birth) something occurred to inhibit the body's normal reaction to sensory auditory overload and the body has not recovered.
The brain, when deprived of age appropriate stimuli, does not work to capacity. By stimulating the auditory areas of the brain, the auditory cortex reorganizes and improvement is noted. Research with animals demonstrated that the brain has the capacity to shift thresholds and rearrange circuits. It is suspected that the stimulation of the auditory areas with Dr. Berard's AIT helps with the threshold shift.
Ms. Davis, with her in-house research, has further demonstrated that AIT works specifically on re-training the acoustic reflex muscle in the middle ear. Consistently, 89-91% of her clients have measurably changed this muscle to work within normal limits.
WHAT DOES AIT INVOLVE?
Not everyone benefits from AIT. The Diagnostic Evaluation for Therapy Protocol (DETP®) is important for determining if AIT will benefit anyone. When administered, AIT consists of 20 one-half hour listening sessions using special listening devices. Various music selections are chosen for their broad sound spectrum, energy and intensity. The device randomly selects high and low pass filters and amplifies and/or filters the frequencies along the sound spectrum as indicated by the results of the Sound Sensitivity Test. The participant listens to the music through special headphones.
Sessions are twice a day for 10 days and must be separated by a minimum of three hours and extend over a two week period which can be separated by a weekend. When receiving Berard AIT, a mid test is performed after the first 10 sessions and the third after the 20th session. When doing the home programs, only a final Sound Sensitivity Test is administered.
IS AIT THE SAME AS THE TOMATIS® METHOD?
Absolutely not! Ms. Davis is trained in both methods. Through her own research, she has discovered that AIT works on ones "sense of hearing"-that may include hypersensitivity (hearing too well) or hyposensitivity (tuning out sound). The Tomatis® Method works more specifically on processing skills-both auditory and vestibular. It also addresses a different type of sound hypersensitivity that is not addressed with AIT. Understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the ear is very important because it is this knowledge that helps explain the difference between the two methods.
WHAT IS A LISTENING TRAINING PROGRAM?
Listening Training Programs are applied at The Trunk of The Tree of Sound Enhancement Therapy®. They are modeled after the work of Dr. Alfred Tomatis. The Tomatis® Method is an innovative program of sound stimulation, audio-vocal activities, and consultation, which was developed by the French physician Alfred A. Tomatis. It has been used throughout the world for over sixty years for both the correction of language, communication, and learning difficulties and for personal growth.
The Tomatis Method® does not concern itself with hearing, but with the functional, social, and psychological factors that bear on listening, communication, language, motor control, learning and health in general. Dr. Tomatis looked at Listening as the active ability, intention, and desire to focus on the sounds that we want to analyze and to reject the ones we do not want. Hearing instead, is the passive reception of sound.
The Tomatis Method® works simultaneously at 3 levels:
1. Functional: Establishing good functional use of both vestibular and cochlear listening. Vestibular: perceives and processes input of internal information through posture and body movement. Cochlear: perceives and processes input of external information through language.
2. Emotional: Establishes emotional desire to use the auditory system, not tune out.
3. Relational: Both the functional and emotional systems improve the relational aspect of the individual to self, others, and the environment.
These programs all include stimulating the connection between the voice, the ear, and the brain and must include sound generated and sent to the body through air conduction vibration and bone conduction vibration, as well as filtered and gated music, and active voice work. These programs are brain intensive so must be done with frequency, duration and intensity to maximize the stimulation for brain change.
WHAT IS "THE TOMATIS EFFECT"?
Dr. Tomatis discovered the relationship between audition and phonation. The ear/voice connection was first demonstrated by Dr. Tomatis to the National Academy of Medicine and the National Academy of Science in 1957. His discovery was referred to as "The Tomatis Effect." It can be best demonstrated through the three laws.
Law 1: The voice only contains the harmonics that the ear can hear.
Law 2: If you give the possibility to the ear to correctly hear the distorted frequencies of sound that are not well heard, these are immediately and unconsciously restored into the voice.
Law 3: The imposed audition sufficiently maintained over time results in permanently modifying the audition and phonation.
WHAT IS "THE DAVIS ADDENDUM® TO THE TOMATIS EFFECT"?
Ms. Davis discovered a further relationship between audition, phonation and the brain. In November 2004, Ms. Davis introduced this relationship at the Acoustical Society of America as The Davis Addendum to the Tomatis Effect. She connected the frequency output of the ear, known as spontaneous otoacoustic emissions, and the irregular vocal pattern frequencies observed with vocal analysis 100% of the time. She created two additional laws:
Law 1: The ear emits the same stressed frequencies that are
emitted by the voice.
Law 2: When complementary or supplementary frequencies of
stressed frequencies are introduced via sound vibration to
the ear, vocal patterns regain coherence.
These new laws further established the voice-ear-brain connection, and encourage further research in this interpretation. They enhance the connection between the Tomatis® Method and BioAcoustics™, further clarifying the cyclical pattern of how the body uses receptive and expressive sound.
ANY ADDITIONAL LISTENING TRAINING PROGRAMS?
Ms. Davis has found that the EnListen® program is an effective Listening Training Program. This is a program that people can use in the comfort of their home with very effective results. This program was developed by Dr.’s Billie and Kirk Thompson, Sound Listening Corporation and has been utilized by both practitioners and learning centers both in the US and around the world.
WHY IS RHYTHM IMPORTANT? (THE SEED)
The universe works on precisely timed cycles or rhythmic patterns. Our natural timing or "rhythmicity" allows the human brain to: 1) plan and sequence thoughts and actions, 2) recognize that patterns exist in its environment as they occur, 3) connect actions and thought patterns with consequences as they occur, 4) perform complex problem solving activities such as copying shapes, writing words, language, social behavior, and other academics, and 5) learn from its experiences and mistakes.
The Seed of The Tree of Sound Enhancement Therapy® incorporates body rhythms as the seed because our basal body rhythms are an inherent part of how our body functions. We cannot function without our heart beating, our breathing patterns, or our cellular patterns. When our body rhythms are 'in sync', our body functions better and our brain channels our rhythmicity better. We perform better!
Cymatherapy® is one of The Seed therapies and Ms. Davis will be continuing to offer this sound-based therapy to her clients.
WHAT CAN BIOACOUSTICS DO FOR YOU?
Through a personal voice spectral sample and analysis, the field of BioAcoustics can develop a protocol of wellness management, which uses the sound frequencies emitted by the human body. These sounds are the tools for the human body to reverse its own disease. The analysis provides a report that identifies a variety of possible health challenges from musculoskeletal to emotional by reviewing the body's irregular patterns.
BioAcoustics is also one of the sound-based therapies which will continue to be offered by Ms. Davis.
Each client is evaluated individually and each program is designed specifically for that person. Monitoring is done using a "best case scenario" approach as suggested by the National Institute of Health. Change is expected and monitored under the direction of the practitioner. Adjustments are made to the program based on a reassessment or until the desired results are achieved. The programs can be altered based on objective and subjective feedback from the client, evaluation, physician directives, laboratory findings and the relief and/or acceleration of symptoms. The initial time span involved can be as short as a few hours while monitoring can continue for as long as desired.
HOW TO START BIOACOUSTICS?
BioAcoustics requires two visits. The Initial Evaluation consists of a general intake process and the taking of a voice spectral sample (voice print). It is important for the participant to inform the practitioner of any current medical conditions and any history of seizures.(Once Ms. Davis has met the client, it may be possible to take the voiceprint over a landline phone on subsequent visits.) A follow-up appointment (within two weeks) is made to discuss the analysis of the voice spectral sample and to introduce the sound frequencies that will help the person make individual change. The individual is given a number of sounds to evaluate while reclining in a comfortable chair and connected to biofeedback equipment. The test sounds are generated by a patented unit called the SMAD™, (Self Management Auditory Device), a device developed by Sound Health Alternatives. The participant's responses are monitored by the BARA (BioAcoustics Research Associate, the credential necessary to administer BioAcoustics), and the participant is asked to provide feedback regarding their physical and/or emotional reactions to determine the best frequencies. The participant's sounds are entered into a "Tone Box" and he/she takes the sounds home to be listened to through "Walkman type" headphones. The voice spectral analysis report can also be shared with the person's personal physician for review.
DO I NEED TO DO BIOACOUSTICS MORE THAN ONCE?
As the sounds are meant to help the individual with their well being, it is important that subsequent follow-up visits and reassessments occur. Ms. Davis requires a one year commitment of reassessments every three months for a total of 4 visits. The most significant aspect of the program that influences the outcome is this re-assessment process. Monitoring and program adjustment is essential if long-term physical and emotional issues are to be influenced.
ARE THERE SIDE EFFECTS TO SOUND THERAPY?
Within the process of using sound-based therapy, Ms. Davis describes the person's responses as though in a "Cycle of Sound", reflecting the reception and expression of sound vibration of the body. This process is inherent in the connection between the voice, the ear, and the brain. As with any cyclical pattern, there will be high positive change and there will be low negative response. After any therapy, the body goes through these highs and lows until the cycles are minimally noticed-kind of like a wave going out through the water until it dissipates and isn't noticed any more.
Because of this cycle, 'side effects' are a good thing, because they are demonstrating that a change is occurring. Sometimes the 'side effects' are extremely noticeable such as an autistic child beginning a response known as 'flapping' or having a return of a previously eliminated response such as 'spinning'. If a new response occurs, it shows that there is a need for the body to learn and work through that response. Sometimes the new response disappears on its own and other times, the client is referred to the appropriate supportive therapy such as occupational therapy. If a previously eliminated response returns, that often means that the child never had the chance to develop that skill or response fully during earlier development and the brain is saying that it needs to integrate this response to its fullest so that development can move beyond it. Again, if the response doesn't disappear on its own, then a referral to a supportive therapy is recommended.
For others, 'side effects' are minimal and the outside observers may just notice that the person 'has matured'. There is something more age appropriate about the person. The person has recovered from the changes and is functioning from a more foundational level. Sometimes, the inner body has made change which may not be immediately noticeable to the person or those around them. But in 6 months to a year, the person is achieving more, is more emotionally stable, can communicate more, and is functioning better overall.
