The Listening Programme study

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I wrote to the author of this study asking her about her

methods and this is her reply. She replied very quickly

Sally

Dear Sally,

I used the Scan test which is a set standardised tests of

auditory processing skills, before and after TLP and the children all

improved and this has a knock on effect which leads to the improvements

parents see. Parents observations are the subjective results.

If you look at my website www.toolsforlife.co.uk

you will see my paper on work in school done previously. I had 2

autistic children among the children using TLP in school. I used a

simple test then for auditory discrimination and memory, all improved

and, school annual test results which were independent of me, to show

the improved academic performance as a result of improved auditory

skills.

I go to work with this parent group in Northern Ireland,

for autistic children, every few months. If it made no difference then

I doubt I would still be being invited.

I get no benefit for presenting the study, from ABT or

anywhere else. I am not looking to increasing my workload. I do not

consider TLP works miracles but in my experience it improves auditory

skills for all ,which helps with communication and educational

progress. It helps autistic children in particular filter out

extraneous noise, which overstimulates them There can be many other

benefits but I find they vary with the individual. The most noticeable

side effects are calming and improved sleep pattern.

The programme is expensive so where possible I try to get

parents to share it, to spread the cost. It does take half an hour a

day over 20 weeks if you run through twice, but it is no great hardship

to do.Personally I think the long term benefits justify the expense of

time and money. However I do think it would be helpful if it came

through school. In the UK there will be two studies coming out soon

with results to show efficacy of TLP with autism and others. TLP is

coming into school here via occupational therapy and speech and

language

therapy.

The results in this study are for verbal children. It can do

a lot for non verbal children but there are no standardised tests you

can use with them. They can increase eye contact and it can initiate

speech but many non verbal children need additional programmes working

on integration of primary reflexes as well.

I do not work for ABT but for the children, and the purpose

of the study is to let people know that it is a resource which could

help their children. The part of the study with results from parent

questionnaire is the last chart only. The rest is from the Scan test

which, are the standardised test scores.

I hope that is helpful.

Regards

Gwyneth

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