Required Pre-requisite course:
Participants must have completed Therapeutic Listening: Listening with the Whole Body.

‘Sharpening Focus’ takes you beyond the basics of matching music and teaches an understanding of the specific use and application of a variety of electronic modifications of sound. This course will assist the therapist trained in the basics of modulated music to gain a deeper appreciation of how difficulties with audition and auditory processing disrupt attention, learning, and praxis. All aspects of advanced use of Therapeutic Listening^® libraries will be explored, from assessment to clinically reasoned album selection, along with treatment progressions, and problems solving potential difficulties as they arise.

While the focus will be on the Fine Tuning libraries, we will also discuss clinically reasoning when to use selections from the various libraries (Modulated, Fine Tuning, Spatially Enhanced and Quickshifts) as well as how to effectively blend them into an individualized treatment protocol. In addition, we will address the understanding of the use of both passive and active bone conduction and its relevance to sensory integrative difficulties.

After completing this course, participants will be able to:

• Make appropriate Fine Tuning Mountain album selections and choose a musical progression based on the client’s individual clinical picture.
• Design a comprehensive Therapeutic Listening musical progression that includes the use of a variety of sound tools to support specific functional outcomes.