When Listening Comes Alive
A Guide to Effective Learning and Communication
Paul Madaule
Madaule demystifies The Tomatis Listening Method as both clinician and client. He has summarized these methods and has included a unique section of daily exercises that will allow you to develop and improve your listening skills on your own. This is a book about listening at all stages of life-- for parents-to-be, hard-working professionals, teachers, early childhood educators, and parents seeking help for learning disabled or difficult teenagers. A guide to a healthier, more wholistic way of li...
| "Madaule's listening program helped our two-year-old developmentally delayed daughter more than any other therapy we've tried. After the first two week session, she walked unaided and gestured, both for the first time, and the therapy continues to help her." |
Daniel E. Spitzer, MD Neurosurgeon |
| "An unusual, fascinating work, educational, eminently practical, and a valuable addition to our knowledge of the development of children and adults. Something in it for everyone." |
Joseph Chilton Pearce author of The Magical Child |
| "Paul Madaule's new book may fundamentally change our understanding of the workings of the human ear in both disease and health. For parents with children who suffer of learning disabilities as well as for adults who want to increase their communication skills, this book will prove immensely helpful. Whatever your reason for reading When Listening Comes Alive you will find it thoroughly accessible and enjoyable book full of surprising and useful information." |
Thomas R. Verny, MD Psych, FRCP, co-author of The Secret Life of the Unborn Child |
| "Parents, teachers, professionals, and the general public will enjoy Paul Madaule's fascinating guided tour on this 'journey into the world of listening.' It's a gift of discovery and hope for anyone who has struggled with learning or communication difficulties." |
Tim Gilmore, PhD |
| Table of Contents |
| Introduction Part 1 1. When Listening Comes Alive 2. Making Listening Come Alive 3. Listening 4. Sound and Movement 5. Music Is Energy 6. Birth of the Desire Part 2 7. Birth of Listening 8. Infancy of Listening 9. Listening for Preschoolers 10. Listening at School 11. Teenage Listening 12. Multiple Listening of the Adult 13. No Retirement for Listening Part 3 Earobics Long Live Listening Appendices Notes Index |
