Bookings are now open ... spaces are limited to no more than 6 children per group.   Program runs 26 Sept - 7 Oct 2016.

Get all the benefits of the Tomatis Sound Training program for a fraction of the RRP!

See our Holiday Group page for more detail.  If groups are not for your child, then think about taking part in the Tomatis home program instead!

We look forward to seeing you there!

Bookings are now open ... spaces are limited to no more than 6 children per group. 

Get all the benefits of the Tomatis Sound Training program for a fraction of the cost of other providers!

See our Holiday Group page for more detail.  We look forward to seeing you there!

In a world-first, Norman Doidge presents a two-day training event. Take advantage of the 'keen' rate savings before 20 December.  BOOK NOW AND SAVE

Dr Doidge’s presentations are immensely moving, inspiring and will permanently alter the way we look at our brains, human nature, and human potential.

Keeping you at the forefront of these amazing developments.
Don't miss this opportunity to register at our most economical rate and to learn with this dedicated and passionate man.

Byron Clinic proudly presents Norman Doidge M.D.’s, world-first two-day seminar workshop, outlining revolutionary research into, and his own reconceptualizing of, the brain’s amazing capacity to heal, and how to apply these discoveries to clinical practice.Norman Doidge’s latest exploration of neuroplasticity has played a major role in overturning the long-held belief that the brain’s sophistication and complexity came at a steep evolutionary price: it’s circuits were too complex to heal when damaged or diseased.

Doidge shows this very complexity is the key to it’s ability to create new neural pathways and overcome previously baffling mental and physical conditions.
In this seminar workshop, Norman Doidge will introduce the latest ideas about what goes wrong in a range of emotional, psychiatric and brain disorders — including what many brain problems have in common—and then the five stages of neuroplastic healing, and how to determine which stage needs clinical attention in your patient. He will review neuroplasticity and how it informs our understanding of mental health problems, brain damage, disease and disorder.

Norman Doidge will discuss basic neuroscience, detailed case histories, and outcome studies where relevant. Throughout, he will provide film evidence of people who were told they would never get better, and show how they improved, demonstrating how, with assistance, the brain can change and re-wire itself to restore lost functions.
He will discuss new treatments for a range of psychiatric, psychological and neurological conditions including ADD, learning disorders, Autism, sensory processing disorders, PTSD, schizophrenia, traumatic brain injury, cerebral palsy, stroke, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease and dystonias, among others. He will show how to reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and discuss the latest information on brain exercises.


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'Keen' registration for these 2-day seminar workshops closes on the 20 December.   DON'T MISS THIS - BOOK NOW

Are you concerned about your child regressing over the VERY long summer holidays?  Why not get ahead of the game and join our summer holiday groups?

This January our team are offering 2 group programs:

The Tomatis (R) Sound Training - A Therapeutic Listening Program:
A fantastic group program for children with learning difficulties, language disorders, speech difficulties, stutters or central processing and literacy difficulties.  Running 6-19 Jan 2016 for 10 days.  Three groups are offered and children are grouped according to age and stage of treatment.

Hop Skip & Jump into Kindy 2016:
This is a 3 day,  small group program for children starting Kindergarten in 2016.  The drop and go  sessions run 9-11am Jan 20- Jan 22 2016 and are designed to help prepare your child for school, covering phonics, social skills, new and story telling etc.

Places in all groups are limited to 6 participants, so call to book your place asap! 

Talk about engaging the Vestibular System whilst listening to our daily tracks using the Tomatis TalksUp!  Amy is trying out her new ballet gear and doing beautiful twirls as she dances to Mozart!  She is loving our "listening time". 

So it's day 10 for us on the second round of the Tomatis Listening Program and we took the TalksUp on the road on our way to a BBQ in Lane Cove.  Job done...1 hour listening on the way there and another 1 hour on the way home.  Easy does it!

Well today my daughter (and very fussy eater) had a major breakthrough...she voluntarily mixed smooth and crunchy textures in her cereal!!!  Usually Amy rejects anything smooth, including all sauces and won't eat food on her plate that has touched another item on her plate...you know when the spinach touches her favourite chicken nuggets...out they go!

I'm excited for her - this is a major step forward in her sensory aversions!!  I remember seeing really lovely steps towards this in the first round of the Tomatis Listening Program, which we completed about 8 weeks ago.  We should have started this second round sooner but life happened! 

Hope you are all seeing wonderful changes with your special little people!  Our holiday program starts soon, so if you are undecided- get in touch and see about joining us!

Having completed the first round of the Tomatis Sound Training, we were delighted as a family to see many positive changes in our 3 children, Katie, Amy and Matthew. 

Matthew had always been our primary concern as he has a bilateral sensorineural hearing loss, and his processing of what he hears is slow.  Similarly his speech has always been clear and articulate, but slow so he was always being interrupted by his sisters.  His response to the first round of the Tomatis Method Sound Training was amazing! Three weeks after the course was completed my husband and I both noted that his speech was faster, he was less frustrated and being interrupted less.  He was using much more sophisticated phrases showing deeper thinking and problem solving than usual. 

Unfortunately now at +/-week 8 post program we noted a deterioration...it's time to start round 2!  We should have started after a 4 week break from round 1, but got a little complacent with his progress (note to all our parents out there!)  I'm on to it now!!

I've recently read some amazing books about therapeutic listening or as I refer to it ‘Auditory Integration’. Having completed the Tomatis ® Sound Training with my 3 children at home, I wanted to share our experiences and my observations about our journey.  I’ll keep it short, I promise!

 

Day 1:

We listened for 2 hours straight whilst doing puzzles, playing board games etc.  The kids kept asking for Katy Perry, but accepted it when I said that this was going to be a different style of music.

I had a headache, and so wasn’t looking forward to listening to anything…but I have to say that my headache lifted quickly without the help of panadol!  I noticed after the 2 hours that my hearing acuity was good – so good that I needed to turn down the volume on my mobile phone when talking to my husband, it was just too loud to be comfortable. Never needed to do that before.  Kids seem calmer, less arguing in the afternoon, even humming to themselves.

Day 3-5:

Kids are loving the creative family ‘listening time’.  They would still rather watch TV, but come to the table happily to join me with Lego etc.  I noticed that all 3 kids slept through the night last night…a rare event in our house!  Hope it lasts.

Day 6-9:

Kids are back at school now so we are listening for 1 hour in the morning, as we get up and then 1 hour in the evenings as we prepare dinner etc.  It’s a new routine to get used to, but manageable.  Kids are still sleeping through…fingers crossed!
 
I definitely notice better hearing acuity for myself and my son (who has a bilateral hearing loss).  I was cleaning his hearing aids and checked that the batteries were working – I usually struggle to hear the telltale ‘squeal’ (that means they have functioning batteries) as I hold them in the palm of my hand up to my ear, but not anymore – it’s as clear as a bell!   
 
I noticed similar improvements in my sons hearing – he is listening to me and answering my questions whilst he is in other rooms in the house.
 
Day 9-13:

All kids continue to sleep through the night!!

My youngest daughter – a very fussy eater – stunned me this week by willingly trying a new food.  Even better – she said that she “liked it”!  If you have a fussy eater you will understand that this is no small achievement! 

Even though I had no academic concerns for 2 of my 3 children, we started this journey to support my 3rd child who has a hearing loss and some signs of vestibular ‘seeking’.  He loves spinning, hanging upside down etc.  He seemed to have more trouble settling into Kindergarten than I had expected and was getting into trouble almost daily for rough behaviour.

He has been the focus, but I feel that his twin sister has also benefited from the therapeutic listening program.  As a sensitive, emotional child I was hoping this program may help her to be less emotional, less “high maintenance” and possible address some of her sensory aversions.  She dislikes any foods that are runny, sauce based, smooth or soft in consistency, and let’s be honest – there are only so many nights per week that I can serve the family chicken nuggets!

It’s fair to say that so far I am delighted with the small changes that I see each day in each of them.  Nothing ‘miraculous’ or life altering, but each little bit of positive change is adding up.  I'll keep you posted...