Yea!!!! I'm so glad to hear you are finding some direction! This is great news!
I have taken the class in "The Listening Program." It is different from Therapeutic Listening. The Listening Program is from a company called Advanced Brain Technologies (ABT) in Ogden Utah. It is a very structured program with not much opportunity for using clinical reasoning in choosing music. You just take the person through the 8 CDs (or maybe 6?) in a very straight-forward fashion. I had a child with autism do it and he did get pretty agitated at certain times. He did much better and responded favorably to Therapeutic Listening.
Therapeutic Listening is quite different, although based on the same theories of AIT (Guy Berard). With TL the therapist chooses specific modulated music based on the clinical presentation of the person. There is music that impacts different areas of function and the therapist has the freedom to choose music in any order as appropriate for the person.
I no longer use The Listening Program. I often use Therapeutic Listening BEFORE the Interactive Metronome program when a child shows a lot of auditory hypersensitivity. This is noted in the IM pre-test. As I said, TL is gentler and you can start with very "easy" music that is linear, little to no harmony, simplistic rhythmic patterns, etc. and then move on slowly to more complex music. But sometimes a child is just ready to start with the IM program. If you can find an OT who does both TL and IM that would be great!
I will be anxious to hear how the testing goes and what the therapist thinks about the dyspraxia. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that you will get some meaningful information that will help direct the school. I'm sure it will be helpful to you, too, in better understanding how Mite processes information.
Keep me posted!!
