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The Sound Learning Centre newsletters and DVD

Download our Winter 2006 Newsletter in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

Download our Spring/Summer 2006 Newsletter in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

Download our Autumn 2006 Newsletter in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

Our work receives frequent coverage in the media and a compilation DVD with video clips of past BBC, ITV, Sky News and Discovery Channel programmes is available on request. Please contact us if you wish to receive a copy.

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The Sound Learning Centre in the media

Worries over 'winter blues' / SAD on BBC Television News video clip.

Parents hail mission to aid shy Michelle a major success or view this article in Adobe Reader PDF format.

Read how a local support group raised £ 1000 from big hearted bobbies.

Four newspaper articles in April 2007 in Adobe Reader PDF format: Daily Express, Daily Record, Banffshire Journal and another article.

Read about the "Little boy who finds the world too loud" in the Daily Record.

Woolworths supports group in Aberdeenshire for Sound Learning Centre programme.

BBC ONE's 'Inside Out' current affairs programme followed clients from first contact with the Centre, during Sound and Light treatment, right through to the final results. More information can be found on this BBC webpage.

BBC Radio 4's 'You and Yours' programme featured the six most useful interventions that have been applied in cases of autism. We were featured twice in respect of Auditory Integration Training (AIT). During the programme you can hear an interview with Pauline Allen as well as an 8 year old child and her mother who talk about their experience and the results of treatment. These programmes can be heard and downloaded from the BBC Radio 4 website, down the page under Autism Interventions.

Read how Andrew Scott aged 10 benefited from Auditory Integration Training (AIT), as written up on The Daily Telegraph website.

Read about a family torn apart in their own house.

"Sound Therapies: Universal Panacea or Placebo?" by Pauline Allen as published in Positive Health complementary health magazine.

"Mozart As Medicine - The Emerging Science Of Psychoacoustics" adapted from an article by Elizabeth Foucard as published in Positive News.

Read about us in the Institute for Complementary Medicine Journal.

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Parent and child support organisations

The Children’s Trust
Tadworth Court
Tadworth
Surrey, KT20 5RU
tel: 01737 365 000
fax: 01737 365 001
email: enquiries@thechildrenstrust.org.uk
web: www.thechildrenstrust.org.uk
Respite breaks: www.thechildrenstrust.org.uk/childrensservices/shortbreaks/instay.asp

NCH, the children’s charity
85 Highbury Park
London
N5 1UD
tel: 0845 762 6579 (calls charged at local rate, open 9am-5pm, Monday to Friday)
web: www.nch.org.uk

The National Autistic Society
393 City Road
London
EC1V 1NG
tel: 020 7833 2299
fax: 020 7833 9666
e-mail: nas@nas.org.uk
web: www.nas.org.uk

National Association for Gifted Children
Suite 14, Challenge House
Sherwood Drive
Bletchley
Buckinghamshire, MK3 6DP
tel: 0870 770 3217
web: www.nagcbritain.org.uk

IPSEA Independent Panel for Special Education Advice
Defending children’s right to special education provision

6 Carlow Mews
Woodbridge
Suffolk IP12 1EA
United Kingdom

England and Wales (freephone)

tel: 0800 018 4016
Mon to Thu 10am – 4pm and 7pm – 9pm
Fri 10am – 1pm and 7pm – 9pm
(during school holidays times are reduced)

Scotland (ISEA)
tel: 0131 454 0096
tel: 0131 454 0144

Northern Ireland
tel: 02890 705 654

e-mail: ipsea.info@intamail.com (for information only, not advice)
web: www.ipsea.org.uk

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Sources of research and information

More information on Auditory Integration Training (AIT)
can be found on Dr. Guy Bérard's personal website.
web: www.drguyberard.com

University of Sunderland
Autism Research Unit
School of Health, Natural & Social Sciences
University of Sunderland
Sunderland, SR1 3SD
tel: 0191 510 8922
fax: 0191 567 0420
email: autism.unit@sunderland.ac.uk
web: http://osiris.sunderland.ac.uk/autism/

Myomancy
Exploring the science and treatment of ADHD, Autism and Dyslexia
web: www.myomancy.com

The Autism Research Institute – U.S.A.
web: www.autismwebsite.com/ari
research on AIT: www.autismwebsite.com/ari/treatment/aitsummary

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Diagnostic laboratories and medical facilities

U.K.

Foresight Preconception
178 Hawthorn Road
West Bognor
West Sussex
PO21 2UY
tel: 01243 868 001
fax: 01243 868 180
email: webmanager@foresight-preconception.org.uk
web: www.foresight-preconception.org.uk

Breakspear Medical Group
Hertfordshire House
Wood Lane
Hemel Hempstead
Hertfordshire, HP2 4FD
tel: 01442 261 333
fax: 01442 266 388
email: info@breakspearmedical.com
web: www.breakspearmedical.com

U.S.A.

Genova Diagnostics
63 Zillicoa Street
Asheville
NC 28801
tel: +1-800-522-4762 (Mon-Fri, 8am – 6:30pm EST)
fax: +1-828-252-9303
web: www.gdx.net

The Great Plains Laboratory
11813 West 77th
Lenexa
KS 66214
tel: +1-913-341-8949
fax: +1-913-341-6207
email: gpl4u@aol.com
web: www.greatplainslaboratory.com

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Professional and special interest organisations

The Developmental Practitioners Association (DPA)
PO Box 4567
Henley on Thames
Oxon, RG9 6XZ
tel: 07984 269 066
web: www.brainshift.co.uk

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Recommended reading list

About Auditory Integration Training (AIT):

Hearing Equals Behavior, includes Dr Bérard’s case studies (US edition 1993), Dr Guy Bérard, ISBN: 0 87983 600 8.

Audition égale comportement (French edition 1982), Dr Guy Bérard, ISBN: 2 7160 0097 2.

The Sound of a Miracle, Georgiana’s story (1991), Annabel Stehli, ISBN: 1 900238 0658.

Dancing in the Rain, 22 USA cases studies (1995), Annabel Stehli, ISBN: 0 9644838 0 7.

The Ultimate Treasure Hunt (1996), Adair Renning, ISBN: 0 9648773 0.

Overcoming Autism (2000), Georgiana Thomas.

Video - The Story Painters: About Dr. Guy Bérard’s Work.

About Light treatment:

Light Years Ahead: The Illustrated Guide to Full Spectrum and Colored Light in Mindbody Healing (1996, ed. Brian Breiling, ISBN: 0 89087 762 9.

Light: Medicine of the Future (1991), Dr Jacob Liberman, ISBN: 1 879181 01 0.

About Neuro-Developmental Difficulties:

Reflexes, Learning and Behaviour, A Window Into the Child’s Mind; A non-invasive approach to solving learning & behavior problems (2002), Sally Goddard, ISBN: 0 9615332 8 5.

The Well Balanced Child, Movement and early learning (2004), Sally Goddard, ISBN: 1 903458 42 0.

Sensory Integration and The Child (1979/82), A Jean Ayres, ISBN: 087 424 1588.

Stopping Hyperactivity, Nancy E. O'dell & Patricia A. Cook, ISBN: 0 89529 789 2.

About Instrumental Enrichment and Professor Feuerstein’s work:

Instrumental Enrichment: An Intervention Programme For Cognitive Modifiability (1980), R Feuerstein, Y Rand, M Hoffman, ISBN 0 673 24600 0.

Don’t Accept Me As I Am: Helping “Retarded” People To Excel (1988), R Feuerstein, Y Rand, J E Rynders, ISBN: 0 306 42964 0.

Changing Childrens Minds: Feuerstein’s Revolution In The Teaching Of Intelligence (1994), Howard Sharron, ISBN: 1 898149 24 0.

About Educational Kinesiology (Brain Gym):

Personalized Whole Brain Integration (1985).

Brain Gym: Simple Activities For Whole Brain Learning (1986), Paul & Gail Dennison.

Smart Moves: Why Learning Is Not All In Your Head (1995), Carla Hannaford, ISBN: 0 915556 27 8.

About dyslexia:

Overcoming Dyslexia, Dr Bevé Hornsby, ISBN: 0 356 211 04 5.

Spelling Made Easy: Sam series, Violet Brand, BrandBooks.

About hyperactivity:

The Hyperactive Child, Belinda Barnes & Irene Colquhoun, ISBN: 0 7225 0883 2.

Stopping Hyperactivity, Nancy E. O'dell & Patricia A. Cook, ISBN: 0 89529 789 2.

About autism:

The Ultimate Stranger, The Autistic Child (1974), Carl H Delacato, ISBN: 0 87879 446 1.

Overcoming Autism (2000), Georgiana Thomas.

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