Home Training
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Carrying through on, and intensifying speech therapy, running parallel with
ergo therapy or other.
Associated with the symptoms of speech problems we often find secondary symptoms
such as behavioural problems, psychological stress, group dynamic problems, etc.
Parents can help their child in these areas.
hearing training serves to activate the central hearing canal. In this canal
auditory signals are filtered, located, and the structure analysed. Useless
noises are subdued (background noise) and useful noises magnified. This all
happens at the same time.
Functional therapeutic treatment cannot be replaced, e.g. myofunctional
exercises to strengthen lips, jaws, chewing muscles. Through hearing training you
accomplish that these exercises (later or parallel) can be assimilated and
integrated better and that e.g. auditory concentration can be improved and the
emotional situation balanced. These are basic foundations for successful
therapeutic treatment.
Compare seeing with hearing:
Memory:
When one does not notice (see) something instantly, one can always take
another look.
When one does not hear something instantly, the sound is gone and one has to ask
to have it repeated…
Localisation - auditory perception
With vision, the pupil is physically focused. The brain controls the eye
muscles.
With hearing, the neurone centre of the hearing canal focuses on the acoustical
surroundings.
Safety Mechanism
The eyes have a closing mechanism and can protect themselves from too much
light.
The ears can only partially protect themselves from too much sound with the
middle ear muscles, and this only as a delayed reaction.
Carry through on hearing training
Please look at the Training plan and discuss this plan with your
therapist. This plan accompanies every piece of equipment or appliance.
Adult Patients
The described therapy procedures in Phase A can be applied to all age groups.
In Phase B the text materials should be selected to suit the age of the patient.
Practising sounds or listening to texts read into the microphone by other family
members is useful.
Therapy Materials for the Individual Methods:
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Therapy Materials for the Individual
Methods 1:
Product tree 1
Auditory perception training (High Frequency- and
Lateraltraining) content and stimulus are individualised.
In this Sound Therapy normal music CDs are listened to, using lateral and/or
high frequency equipment. This is phase A. The patient wears head phones
and is creatively active.
Auditory perception training in the phase B with speech,
is done using the same equipment. The child and parent/therapist both wear
headphones. They work with the CD player, to play texts, and then speak
into the microphone to develop direct dialogue.
(HPT) Direction (Lateral) and Speech (High Frequency)
Training in combination
Combination of both methods DPT and SPT. Exceptionally
effective.
Material: 1 HPT-Trainer (HPT home), 1-2 headphones (HD 570 or
HDK 66), music CDs and text materials. See
page
(DPT) Direction Perception (Lateral) Training
In lateral training the signal moves back and forth
from ear to ear. See page
Material: 1 Lateral-Trainer (DPT home), 1 headphone (HD
570 or HDK 66) music CDs and text materials.
(SPT) Speech Perception (High Frequency) Training
In High Frequency Training the high frequencies are
maximised and the lower frequencies are minimised. See
page
Material: 1 High Frequency Trainer (SPT home), 1
headphone (HD 570 or HDK 66), music CDs and text materials.
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Therapy Materials for the Individual
Methods 2:
Product tree 2
Test devices for diagnostic investigation and
functional training:
To test and train the temporal processing (order- /
fusion- threshold), the device provides pitch distinction and sound
localization with stimuli in the auditory and visual modality.
An economic pocket version of the device is available
for semi-professional and home-use applications alternatively
multifunction devices for therapists and doctors. Here are decribed only
the home-use applications.
(O) Order Threshold Training
Stimuli are given at random. The stimuli has to be
placed in order (was the right or the left first) by pressing the keys.
Materials: 1 Universal Trainer (Brain Fit home) OR 1 Order Threshold Trainer Brain-Fit Easy (OT
70 or OT 2000, no accessories required) or Game Boy® card (Brainy uni) to
fit in Game Boy® models.
(S) Synchronisation Training
A beat is given. The user is to imitate the given beat.
The user enters his beat on the keys.
Material: 1 Universal Trainer (Brain Fit home) OR 1 Synchro Trainer Brain-Fit Synchro (OT 73).
No accessories required.
(P) Pitch Training
High frequency patterns are given. The user shall
recognize which is the higher frequency. The answer is keyed in.
Material: 1 Universal Trainer (Brain Fit home). No accessories
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