Why Listening Training?

Listening lies behind skills such as:

• auditory processing
• focus and attention span
• eye contact
• reading (decoding and comprehension)
• spelling
• speech
• body posture
• balance and coordination
• sense of rhythm

Listening facilitates:

• social skills
• achievement at school
• talking with flow and expression
• a good singing voice
• for the acquisition of foreign languages
• playing a musical instrument
• dancing
• sport & physical activities

People who experience improved listening comment on feeling, or their parents report as being, more:

• "in tune"
• "calmer"
• "happier"
• "in touch"
• "in sync"
• "grounded"
• "together"
• "present", "in the here and now"
• "on top of things"
• "clear minded"
• "refreshed and energized"

Listening Training is about making listening work.