GENERAL FEEDBACK FROM PARENTS, TEACHERS AND CHILDREN

The following is a sample of the comments that have been received from parents, teachers and children themselves during and following the Johansen Sound Therapy programme.

• Her speech has improved enormously
• Her ability to comprehend the spoken word has come on in leaps and bounds
• He is less impulsive now than before
• Her confidence has developed well this year
• He is much better at waiting for his turn
• His attention span has improved
• He is not as clumsy as he used to be
• Her social skills have improved greatly
• He isn't 'fighting the world' any more
• She's much less frustrated
• He doesn't seem to be so angry
• He's more willing to attempt to read
• My homework doesn't take so long
• My homework isn't such a chore
• She seems to retain what I teach more easily
• I can concentrate on what the teacher is saying better
• She is quite content to be surrounded by noise and is now unaffected by sudden loud noises.

 

This story about 'listening' was written by a six year old boy on the JST programme

to accompany his picture shown on the homepage. It was his first piece of independent writing.

'I am in the bedroom, and I am listening to my tape. I am listening to music. It was soft. The music makes me happy. I like to listen to my tape.'