The Swain Center - Listening, Learning, Communicating
The Northern California Voice Project for Parkinson Disease

Child Development 101 -
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Cogmed Qualified Practice

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Is your child at risk? Communication Risk Factors

PACE - Processing And Cognitive Enhancement

PACE program Now Offering PACE in Santa Rosa! Hope for Struggling Students - WHEN TUTORING DOESN'T WORK! For more information on the PACE Program see our PACE Overview, or Contact Us for a complimentary PACE assessment.

Social Skills Groups

Following Michelle Garcia Winner's Think Social curriculum, The Swain Center offers social skills groups for school-aged children ages 4-7 and 8-14. Older school-aged children are considered on an individual basis. The groups are limited to 4-6 participants and scheduled once weekly for 90 minutes for 16 weeks. For more information and to schedule a complimentary screening call us at (707) 575-1468.

LSVT® Loud

Lee Silverman Voice Training - A scientifically documented efficacious program for treating voice and speech disorders in patients with Parkinson's Disease and other neurological disorders.
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Upcoming Events

Monthly Autism Support Group
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Dr. Swain's Research

The International Journal of Listening See our research in The International Journal of Listening.

Committed to state-of-the-art therapeutic interventions
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February 4th, 2012

Tomatis Outreaches

Now Enrolling!*
Las Vegas
Starts Spring 2011
San Jose
Starts June 20, 2011
*Call Lindsay Swain 1-800-830-4061 for more information

Future locations:
Reno
Orange County
Sacramento

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Auditory Processing Disorders - Assessment, Management and Treatment


the listening center

The Listening Center at The Swain Center offers a variety of intervention methodologies/programs designed to improve listening skills. Used as a complementary intervention to speech and language therapy these interventions have resulted in improvement with communication, social and behavioral skills. It is through the therapeutic application of sound that social, behavioral and communication changes are facilitated.

The intervention methodologies are offered as both home and in-clinic programs. Each program is individually designed depending on the client's individual needs.

We offer:



The Tomatis Method

The Tomatis Method is based on the original research and development of Dr. Alfred Tomatis who pioneered the field of the therapeutic application of sound. The Tomatis Method has been shown to improve communication, and effect positive social and behavioral changes.

The Tomatis Method is the combination of art, science and engineering that improves one's ability to perceive the full range of frequencies that result in improved listening. Improved listening can result in improved processing and learning.

The Tomatis Method is the application of psychoacoustically modified or modulated sound. The Tomatis Method utilizes advanced technology to transmit gated and filtered sound to the listener's ear through headphones.

The Tomatis Method has proven to demonstrate improvement with skills of:

  • Auditory memory
  • Auditory discrimination
  • Following directions
  • Auditory processing
  • Auditory endurance

More information about The Tomatis Method can be found at www.tomatis.com.



Samonas Sound Therapy (SST)

SST has combined the principles of The Tomatis Method with advances in technology and engineering to develop psychoacoustically modified recordings to enhance listening skills.

The Samonas protocol is written, monitored and supervised by a trained and certified Samonas clinician. The program can be used at home, in a clinic or at school. The listening protocol is developed based on the needs of each client as determined by assessment results. The frequency and duration of listening times will vary depending on each client's unique needs. Headphones and a compact disc player are required.

More information about Samonas Sound Therapy can be found at www.Samonas.com.



Interactive Metronome® (IM)

IM combines the concept of a musical metronome with a patented technology program that accurately measures, assesses and improves a person's rhythm and timing. It is the only program that uses a patented auditory guidance system plus interactive exercise to improve the foundational skills essential for learning and development.

The IM program has been shown to produce significant results in children and adults with a wide range of physical and cognitive difficulties including ADHD.

IM has been reported to result in improvement in five areas:

  • Attention and focus
  • Motor control and coordination
  • Language processing
  • Reading and math fluency
  • Impulsivity

More information about Interactive Metronome® can be found at www.interactiveMetronome.com.



Earobics®

Earobics® is an award winning software that is the leading solution for providing comprehensive phonological awareness and auditory processing training for intervention and remediation of reading and other language-based learning disabilities.

Crucial areas of literacy development include:

  • Language development
  • Phonemic awareness
  • Alphabetic knowledge
  • Decoding and spelling
  • Beginning reading
  • Beginning writing

More information about Earobics® is available at www.earobics.com.

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