Auditory Processing Deficits

Auditory processing deficits do respond to Neurofeedback, but in this case other remedies are available that should be brought to bear as well. Direct challenges to auditory processing through complex sounds can often be very helpful, and these don't require a clinician standing by. The Tomatis method and "The Listening Program" are two programs that should be considered along with Neurofeedback. Sound is altered in various ways in these programs, with the result that the brain is challenged in its timing and frequency-based organization.

One may think of Neurofeedback as challenging the timing and frequency-based organization at the lower end of the frequency spectrum, the one that is occupied by the EEG, whereas the sound-based programs challenge higher frequencies that test the limit of the brain's timing integrity. The combination covers the entire range of frequencies that the brain has to contend with in life. When the two methods are combined, as is typically the case in the clinical setting, it is not clear entirely where credit is to be assigned. That question can be left for research to sort out later. For the time being, it is sufficient to know that these techniques exist, and that the brain is profoundly responsive to them.