1.
Visual Evoked Stimulus - using a custom
designed computerized light instrument, the client
will receive
colors throughout the visual spectrum as follows:
magenta - ruby - red - yellow green - blue green
-
violet
The medical field specializing in the effects of
colored light in the brain is known as Syntonics,
a field that has been actively researched since the
1920s. Studies in this field have revealed links
between color processing and problems with attention
span, reading, coordination, balance, and sleep disorders.
The field has also produced light therapy treatments
with remarkable results.
Dr. Jack
Liberman published in the Journal of Optometric
Vision Development. His study, “The Effect
of Syntonic (Colored Light) Stimulation On Certain
Visual and Cognitive Functions (pdf)” had these
conclusions:
“
The results of this study clearly indicate that the
use of colored light therapy (syntonics), will produce
very significant improvements in certain visual and
cognitive functions. It confirms the previous clinical
and research data that visual field constrictions
enlarge significantly and within a short period of
time with the application of the appropriate syntonic
treatment…. From the results of this study,
it is apparent that syntonics increased all aspects
of memory evaluated, and it produced very significant
changes in the areas of visual-memory. These results
indicate that syntonics increases one’s receptivity
to both visual and auditory information, as well
as one’s level of integration between visual,
auditory, verbal, and motor systems.”
2.
Auditory retraining - after a listening
profile is performed, the client will receive
modulated music based on their individual needs.
This is applied through headphones the client
wears while going through the program.
This
area of treatment is based on the work of Doctor
Guy Berard, world-renowned hearing specialist.
Berard
explains in his book Hearing Equals Behavior what
is at stake:
" [Hearing problems] profoundly affect
the encoding and decoding operations of hearing,
and therefore result in the brain receiving garbled
information,
not simply diminished information.... everything happens as if human behavior
were largely conditioned by the manner in which one hears."
3.
Vestibular stimulation (balance) - uses a
custom designed motion table to deliver relaxing movement
in a reclined position.
Your body’s vestibular system is responsible
for controlling your balance and posture. More than
simply your “inner ear”, it is a complex
system that involves multiple inputs, motor activities,
and feedback from the cerebellum and cerebral cortex.
You need it to function correctly for nearly every
move you make.
The
Sensory Learning Program uses a motion
table in combination with auditory
and visual stimuli. The Center has found that their
patients often have permanently-improved sensory
processing, including that of the vestibular system.
The program is intended to be a "one-time intervention." It
would appear that this multi-sensory integration
approach, done in a controlled manner, helps the
brain coordinate and permanently connect sensory
inputs more effectively then when they are exercised
in isolation. Dr. Selwyn Super, a psychologist at
the University of Southern California described the
program in a 2005 paper:
“ The separate sensory
stimuli work together... by entraining the vestibular
system with motion,
stimulating
the ocular system with colored frequencies of visible
light which changes the firing pattern of the hypothalamus,
and exercising the auditory system through gated
vocal and nonvocal music... because each sensory
modality uses a different coordinate system to represent
space, the brain has to find an efficient way of
interrelating these schemes in order to use cross-modal
cues cooperatively.”
