The Sound Teacher

25/11/2025

If you are not sure how the 👂🏾 and 🧠 are connected, please read my latest blog. Sound really does matter for communication, emotional regulation and cognitive processes. It is NEVER too late to sort out sound processing either, as the brain is plastic!

Hearing loss affects 1.5 billion people globally and disables half a billion of them. In the inner ear the cochlea’s high-frequency region is more vulnerable to damage from noise, drugs, and ageing. Hearing plays a key role in communication, emotional well-being, and mental health. The emotional c...

21/11/2025

New blog! Do you or your child find it hard to focus, fidget, get distracted, make careless mistakes, have trouble waiting or interrupt others?

The Tomatis® Method is a gentle neurosensory training technique involving the ear, brain, and body that can support ADHD treatment. Listening therapy is done in your own home via your personal Maestro headphones. ADHD frequently coexists with other conditions like anxiety, sleep disorders, autism, ...

09/10/2025

https://thesoundteacher.co.uk/blog/the-tomatis-method-and-speech

09/10/2025

You may have tried speech therapy or other treatments without seeing the expected progress. Sometimes, even with consistent effort, development stalls. Issues are often linked to listening.

The Tomatis® Method uses sound stimulation with specialist Maestro headphones. Supporting autism, ADHD, speech delay and non- or pre-verbal, stammer, stutter and more. You may have tried speech therapy or other treatments without seeing the expected progress. Sometimes, even with consistent effort,

30/09/2025

If you or someone you know lives with persistent dizziness, I do hope this helps. My latest Blog.

Gain an understanding of dealing with persistent dizziness. Differentiate between ‘helpful’ and ‘unhelpful’ stress responses to dizziness. Trial options for managing the dizzy episodes with the management toolkit. Cat Robbins - The Sound Teacher - is an Associate Fellow of the British Societ...

29/09/2025

A Listening Test differs from a standard hearing examination; you may be curious about what the process involves. See here in my latest blog!

A listening test evaluates how ears, body, and brain work together. The Tomatis® Maestro headphones facilitate testing in the home without the need for a sound proof booth or silence. You will be offered an ear examination, air conduction and bone conduction testing. Selectivity, hypersensitivity a...

11/08/2025

It is perfectly possible for me to program your next listening intensive remotely and ship your headphones and support resources back to you next day delivery 📦 🎧 🎶 👂🏾

Get in touch if you’d like to try the Tomatis method. A 14 days listening intensive can trigger some great results and get sound processing shifted in the right direction.

18/07/2025

As a lead practitioner in the UK I have exclusive access to this new feature for the Maestro headphones. Use them for auditory therapy, of course. PLUS now you can stream your own music via Bluetooth. It’s a breeze!

18/07/2025

I read this book and then I was compelled to write a blog about it! https://thesoundteacher.co.uk/blog/a-to-zen A to Zen — The Sound Teacher

Paying attention may seem like an easy task, but it is frequently underestimated, and more complex than it appears. A Tomatis® auditory opening programme improves listening availability and attention. There are limitations in our body's communication mechanisms. Enhancing your auditory feedback abi...

13/07/2025

Interesting, I actually wrote a blog about this just the other day. If you are suffering procrastination, inertia or even transition paralysis (sitting in the car rather than going into the house - this does happen to people especially with adhd and ASD) then movement and vagus nerve stimulation can help. Auditory (listening) stimulation can be effective as the vagus nerve exits in the ear canal 👂🏾 🎧 🎶

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11/07/2025

If you are crippled by procrastination, inertia or transition paralysis (it exists - think sitting in the parked car for half an hour unable to go in the house) then read my latest blog.

The vagus nerve plays a key role in regulating bodily responses and alertness. In this blog I describe how both physical activity and Tomatis® auditory stimulation with the Maestro headphones can activate alertness circuits, aiding in overcoming conditions such as procrastination, brain fog, inerti...

10/07/2025

Your brain predicts the environment, it _doesn’t react passively_ to it. This is a multi-sensory process of sound, vision, temperature, touch, vestibular (movement) and interroception (internal sensations).

*Why does this matter when it comes to learning?*

Prediction errors are how you learn! When discrepancies are detected between what you expect and what actually occurs, your brain _should_ readjust to keep homeostasis. This is not always successful, which is why you might find it difficult to regulate and therefore get distracted.

Examples include: dislike of certain noises, limited food or texture choices, uncomfortable in certain clothing, sensitive to bright lights, intolerant of movement and motion sickness.

The Tomatis®️ method uses a Gating®️ system which gives ‘sound perception contrasts’ to keep the brain interested. *This actually trains the brain to accept differences in the environment without emotional response.*

When you complete a Tomatis®️ listening intensive you are training your brain to achieve regulation and to pay attention to learning opportunities without the distraction. Powerful stuff.

Sound matters!