Listening Checklist: Identify Signs of Listening Difficulties
Tomatis Listening Checklist
You (or your child) could have a listening difficulty if:
- A history of ear infections (also having tubes placed) during childhood
- Experience headaches during times of learning, paying attention
- Sounds (could be loud sounds or simply someone chewing beside you) bother you.
- Have had difficulty acquiring language skills in early development
- Have difficulty with stuttering.
- Experiences articulation difficulties
- Difficulty saying words of several syllables
- Fail to understand rhymes
- Confuse similar sounding words
- Have difficulties with reading or spelling.
- Reverse sounds or letters in words
- Dislike school and find it boring
- Experience behavior difficulties at school.
- Hyperactive, restless during attentive work.
- Need to be redirected to the task frequently
- Distracted by sights and sounds in the environment.
- Not motivated to complete your schoolwork.
- Frequently forget to give in your homework, or hand in sloppy assignments.
- Difficulty understanding questions
- Difficulty following instructions correctly
- Difficulty with multi-step sequences and multi tasking.
- Difficulty understanding hidden meaning of what was being said.
- Difficulty understanding stories as a whole with beginning, middle or end.
- Sensitive to movement (boat, amusement park rides
- An uncoordinated person
- Do not enjoy participating in sports.
- Constantly rocking or moving
- Experience emotional difficulties and stress
- Experience increasing difficulty with memory as you age.
- Discover increasing balance difficulties as you age.
Contact us if you or your child are experiencing any of the above symptoms to see if Tomatis training could assist in improving your quality of life.