Therapeutic Listening, any reviews? Did it work? Worth the money?

[Anonymous]

For kids with sensitive neurological systems, it can cause major issues. It made both of my boys' anxiety much worse.

[Anonymous]

Not for us

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For kids with sensitive neurological systems, it can cause major issues. It made both of my boys' anxiety much worse.

Same here. Although it helped some issues, damage it made was much greater, in retrospect. I regret doing it

[Anonymous]

Hi there,

Listening therapies helps the brain to process sensory, cognitive and emotional information more effectively, so it's worth attention.

Here you have some review that might be helpful: http://www.sensory-therapies.com/review/integrated-listening-system-ils/. You can read about many more listening therapies, like Listening Fitness (LIFT)

[Anonymous]

Here, short but helpful review http://www.sensory-therapies.com/review/therapeutic-listening-vital-links/:

Technical descriptionTherapeutic Listening (Vital Links) is a music stimulation program functioning with an IPod, CD or digital music player. Therapeutic Listening contains five different types of music, with over 45 album selections. The programs capitalize on the organized rhythmical sound patterns inherent in music.

Science foundation claims The music is filtered to highlight the range of frequencies which trigger attention and activate body movement. The music program is also designed with special attention to rhythmic sound patterns to trigger the self-organizing capacities of the nervous system.

[Anonymous]

I know this is a older post but it is a topic that just came up in our OT sessions. Kiddo seemed to really like the headphones and responded well in OT to the music. We are looking into buying the head phone &/or music.
Kiddo has speech delay, inattention, vestibular processing disorder, difficulty falling asleep, all which causes sensory seeking and getting over baked too. For these specific areas of concern has anyone had good outcomes with vitalsounds.com???
We may just try the sounds on kids regular head phones or music to be played at home for a while. But I am also reading not all regular head phones/ kids cd player has the correct range for the songs?
At this point we are not recommended for a specific therapy program. Just that the different sounds/cds may help with focus, calming down etc.
A indoor swing and dreampadsleep.com pillow have also been recommended as things to try. But, we can't just buy something new every week. So, we are trying to figure out where is best to start. (I will not the OT is not selling any of this to us. So, no money to be made by promoting products.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know this is a older post but it is a topic that just came up in our OT sessions. Kiddo seemed to really like the headphones and responded well in OT to the music. We are looking into buying the head phone &/or music.
Kiddo has speech delay, inattention, vestibular processing disorder, difficulty falling asleep, all which causes sensory seeking and getting over baked too. For these specific areas of concern has anyone had good outcomes with vitalsounds.com???
We may just try the sounds on kids regular head phones or music to be played at home for a while. But I am also reading not all regular head phones/ kids cd player has the correct range for the songs?
At this point we are not recommended for a specific therapy program. Just that the different sounds/cds may help with focus, calming down etc.
A indoor swing and dreampadsleep.com pillow have also been recommended as things to try. But, we can't just buy something new every week. So, we are trying to figure out where is best to start. (I will not the OT is not selling any of this to us. So, no money to be made by promoting products.)

These programs are not empirically validated and are unlikely to any affect beyond placebo. My OT, who I otherwise loved, really pushed us to do one of these with my DS (also speech delay, sensory issues, vestibular, and anxiety and social stuff). I said no because the research was such garbage. He made tons and tons of progress anyway. OTs, like physicians, often don't have much training in understanding research.

Honestly, I would buy an indoor swing before any specific therapeutic listening stuff (if swinging is calming for your kid). But you may not even need that. Make him a cozy corner with blankets and pillows and let him try just listening to some music he picks out, or give him a white noise machine. Go to playgrounds. Get him speech therapy to help with the language.

[Anonymous]

We did it because why not? zero effect.

[Anonymous]

My kid hated it. Total waste of time and money.

[Anonymous]

My kid did it years ago (probably 9 years) and he had a very interesting 'orientating' response to the first CD. It was fascinating and because we could rent the CDs through the OT's office we did it. You are correct that you have to use 'good' headphones ($100 range) in order to hear all the sounds. Our OT's office also sold the headphones at cost. In the end, for us, I don't think it made any difference. We've gotten far more mileage and better value from a rebounder/mini-trampoline and a swing. Got the swing from Ikea.

[Anonymous]

We do this. Right now we rent music on the iPad from vital links.


If anyone has the modulated music on the chips I’d buy them in a heart beat.

The music has helped a ton.

[Anonymous]

We’ve done Tomatis listening training to help with language delays in our 4 year old daughter. That was the best investment we made. Yes, it’s an monetary and time investment (drove to in office visits almost every day with breaks....) it worked relatively in a short time but that depends on what you’re trying to address.

[Anonymous]

Interesting our OT suggested it last week. She is going to try it in this week’s session as a trial run.

[Anonymous]

We did in office Tomatis but we initially took the in home system. For us, we saw quicker results with the in office therapy.

[Anonymous]

Recommend for speech issues-very effective in our case, speech delays