Music Therapy

Mason looks so cute in his great big headphones! He is doing therapeutic listening, which is an innovative program for providing high quality input within the context of sensory integrative treatment. Music is adjusted to make higher or lower tones and pitches to provide this type of treatment. Like most children with autism, Mason hears different than we do. Certain tones and pitches are louder to him which causes him to react. By doing this type of therapy, Mason is allowing himself to slowly get used to those tones and pitches in order to adjust to the everyday sounds he hears. For example, Mason doesn't like when Riley cries, especially in the car. A few months ago, if Riley started to cry, Mason would cover his ears and scream at a higher pitch to cover Riley's cry. With just a few months of therapeutic listening, Mason was able to remain calm during a car ride of crying. Now he is able to talk to me and remain calm in situations that were difficult for him in the past!