Integrated Listening Therapy
By addressing brain function at a foundational level, we are better able to cope with life's challenges and are able to take up learning with ease.
In Clinic Therapy
Every child learns and develops in their own unique way, but for some, challenges with attention, learning, sensory processing or emotional regulation , make everyday experiences more difficult.
The Integrated Listening Therapy (ILS) is grounded in the principles of neuroplasticity, which is the brains's remarkable abiltiy to adapt, change and develop throughout life.
Just as exercise helps us build physical strength and fitness, ILS uses gentle auditory input to strengthen neural pathways that support attention, sensory processing, emotional regulation and learning.
Key Benefits of ILS
Vestibular & Balance Support: Stimulates the inner ear's vestibular system directly to improve balance, spatial awareness, posture and motor coordination.
Nervous System Regulation: Activates the Vagus nerve via low-frequency vibrations to help calm the "fight or flight" response, reduce anxiety and foster emotional regulation.
Enhanced Auditory Processing: Trains the brain to accurately process, filter and integrated sound, helping to decrease auditory sensitivities.
Improved Focus & Cognition: Strengthens neural connections linked to attention, memory and the abiltiy to follow multi-step verbal instructions.
Support for Learning & Communication: Assists with language development, reading skills, and overall behavioural organisation in daily life.
Sensory Processing: managing sensory input, auditory sensitivity and body awareness
What makes the ILS Listening experience different?
ILS uses specially filtered music and sound frequencies to provide carefully structured auditory input that engages the brain and body.
Children listen through specialised headphones that deliver enhanced or filtered sounds across the full range of frequencies used in the programme and also provide bone conduction therapy.
What is Bone Conduction ?
Bone conduction is a natural way we experience sound. You may have noticed it when you can feel the vibration of a loud car nearby or the beat of a bass speaker through the floor. You are hearing the music through bone conduction.
With bone conduction, sound is converted into gentle vibrations that cause movement of fluid in the inner ear, that then activates nerves which are involved in balance, coordination, muscle tone, rhythm and body awareness, all of which play an important role in how we manage attention, sensory processing and emotional regulation.
A Programme Designed Around Your Child
There is no one-size fits all approach . An ILS certified therapist will recommend a programme based on individual needs.
However, each ILS session will include a multi-sensory movement programme. Movement stimulates the vestibular (balance system) which is closely connected to the auditory system and activates the cerebellum, where our motor planning, movement patterns and coordination are established. By moving, balancing and listening at the same time we can maximise the integration of the listening therapy on the sensory areas of the brain, enabling rapid maturation of the pathway's needs for sensory processing, communication, higher cognitive functioning and learning.
Listening Tests and parent consultations are held at specific times throughout the therapy and Mother’s Voice Therapy may also be used, as well as Expressive Language and Speech Exercises in the final phase of therapy.
How long will it take?
The length of the programme will vary, as some children may need shorter or longer programmes. However as a guide 30-35 in clinic therapy sessions over 11-12 weeks with breaks in between segments and up to 80 sessions for a home based programme. Autistic children may need a slower longer programme. The length of the programme will be discussed with you following the initial assessment.
Distance Therapy
Where distance is a barrier for families who are unable to participate in our In Clinic programme, we offer a home based programme based on your child's individual needs.
How will I know if it's working?
Many parents see a change in their children's behaviour almost immediately following therapy, but academic changes normally start to take affect 6 months follILS thearpy