(Pre Publication):

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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:…22Sensory 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

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…47The 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

Chapter III
Sensory Integration and Autism…1

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