Autism  Read Selections
300 pages
By Valerie Dejean

(Pre Publication): TABLE OF CONTENTS

The Spectrum Center,

New York, NY phone (212) 223-2928

Bethesda, MD phone (301) 657-0988
 
 

CHAPTER I:
The use of the Tomatis Method for children with Autism and PDD

AUDITORY TRAINING AND AUTISM….7
What is autism?…7
CAUSES OF AUTISM…9
Prevalence of Autism…11
Description of the onset of Autism/PDD…12
Sensory History…12
Movement differences in people with Autism…19
Motor Development History…21
Coordination:…22
Sensory Integration Disorder in children with Autism and PDD…23
Sensory Defensiveness in children with Autism and PDD:…24
Dyspraxia in children with Autism and PDD:…26
Auditory Processing Disorders in children with Autism and PDD:…28
Levels of Processing Disorder:…30
Changes with Sound Stimulation…32
Need for a comprehensive model…34
Sensory Integration as an Umbrella Model…37
Influences on the development of Sensory Integration Theory…38
Sensory Integration…43
Treatment of Children with sensory integration disorders…50
Assumptions UNDERLYING TREATMENT:…50
Organization of Sensations …51
CASE HISTORY QUESTIONNAIRE…54
Case History Progress Report- Sammy…68 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Keywords: Autism new book Valerie Dejean Tomatis Method Sensory Integration Dysfunction in children with Autism and PDD (Pre Publication)

Selections from Valerie Dejean's new book on 
Autism, Tomatis and Sensory Integration 

Motor Planning
Sensory Integration Disorder
Dyspraxia
Changes with Tomatis
Before Words
Evolution of Language
Praxis
Central Auditory Processing Symptoms
Auditory Processing.

ABOUT THE TOMATIS METHOD..2
APPLICATIONS of the Tomatis Method…2
About Dr. Alfred Tomatis…3
ORIGINS OF THE TOMATIS METHOD…6
Occupational Deafness…6
Opera Singers…7
The Three Laws of the Tomatis Effect…11
The First Tomatis Law…11
The Second Law…11
The Third Law - Law of retention:…12
Control of the Audio-Phonatory Mechanism..13
The Middle Ear Muscles Ant/Physiology…16
Functions of the Middle Ear Muscles…17
The Role of the Right Ear in Audio-Vocal Control…20
Vagus is the wanderer, wanders more on the left side…22
Research on Stuttering ? delayed feedback…22
Language and Laterality…25
Laterality and Control…27
Relationship between Listening and the Body…28
Ear and the Skin…29
Ear and Bone Conduction…32
Acoustic Geography…33
Language and Body Image…34
The developmental relationship between Listening and Language
Acquisition…36
Intra-Uterine Listening…37
Evolution of Listening…41
Ear as Neurological Organizer…42
Functions of the Ear…43
The Ear is not made for hearing…43
The Vestibular Function…44
Body image and motor planning…46
Energy…47
The Cochlea Function…51
Verticality…52
Verticality and Language…52
Laterality…53
Language and Laterality…53
LATERALITY and 40 Million Frenchmen…57
The Leading Ear…59
THE LEADING EAR AND STUTTERING…62
…the color of their hair and skin…64
The Integrators - The Vestibular-Visual-Auditory Interplay…67
Theory of the Three Integrators…67
Vestibular (Somatic) Integrator…67
Olfactory Integrator…71
Visual (Spatial) Integrator…71
Cochlea (Linguistic) Integrator…72
Vestibular Integrator…75
Gravity…76
Rhythm and Timing or Spatial Temporal Processing. Bilateral
Coordination…78
The Visual Integrator…78
The Linguistic Integrator…79
Hearing and Listening are very different functions:..81
The Birth of Listening…82
Functions of the Middle Ear…83
Cranial Nerves of the Middle Ear…84
Vagus X (Pneumogastric) Nerve…84
Tomatis’ Theory of Hearing…86
Steve Porges - The Polyvagal Theory…87
The Mother?Child Relationship…88
 

What is Sensory Integration?..2
Sensory Registration and Regulation…2
Sensory Registration: Reactivity (Thresholds)…3
How Does Sensory Integration Relate to My Child?…5
Special Senses-
 The Vestibular System (Somatic Integrator)…6
The Distance Receptors: Seeing (vision) and Hearing (audition)…8
Cochlear (Linguistic) Integrator…10
Motor Planning ? Praxis…12
First Level of Sensory Integration  The Special Sensory Receptors…20
Next level of organization and Integration of Sensory Input…23
Next Level of Organization and Integration of Sensory Input is the
formation of Perceptual Schema…25
Types of children I see…28
Dyspraxia- Motor Planning Disorder…29
How Does Praxis Relate to My Child? Or What Does Praxis Have to
Do with My Child?…32
Symptoms of Dyspraxia…34
Changes Observed…37
The Link between Praxis and Language Development…39
The Evolution of Language…40
First Came Episodic Thought…40
Mimetic Culture…41
From Episodic To Mimetic To Symbolic…42
The link between Praxis and Language…46
CENTRAL AUDITORY PROCESSING…48
Symptoms of CAP…49
Influences of the Vestibular system on the Development of Auditory
Processing…52
THE LISTENING FUNCTION…58
Fields of Intelligence…58
Prevalence of Autism…63
Comprehensive Model Autism and PDD…69
Parallel evolution…70
Uniquely Human…75
Praxis: bridge between non-symbolic and symbolic thought…77
Adaptive: Foundation for Representational and Symbolic Thinking…81
Cognitive Evolution…82
The Role of Ideation in praxis…83
Ideation as the Link of Praxis with Language…84
Representation Action and the Development of Symbolic
Thought…87
Characteristic of Mimetic Thought…93
Patterns of development we can observe in Autism…95
Mimetic to Symbolic Gestural Communication…98
TOMATIS METHOD and SI Comparison…104
Incorporation of vocalizations…108
"The Voice Can Only Reproduce what the Ear can Hear"…111
Ontogeny Recapitulated Phylogeny…116
Reality ? Sensory Perception…117
How Does Auditory Processing Relate to My Child?…121
Spectrum Center Method…126
The Key to Communication, Behavior, and Learning Problems,
including Dyslexia…127
Sensory Integration Dysfunction…129
Attention and Focus…132
Kinesthetic Ability…133
Sensory Defensiveness…133
Socialization…134
Attention Deficit Disorders (ADD/ADHD)…135
Sensory Integration and ADD…136
Dr. Alfred Tomatis, Listening, and ADD…137
Jean Ayres’ Sensory Integration Theory…137
Listening Checklist…144