Forms & Documents
iLs forms, checklists and schedules.

Marketing Resources
Brochures, information sheets and iLs logos.

Conference Information
2008 Annual Conference dates and location

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iLs Brochure - a tri-fold glossy brochure explaining iLs therapy, Home System and Focus (print copies available July, 2008)

iLs logo - color

Save the dates!

iLs 2008 Annual Conference in Boulder, Colorado

October 22, 2:00 pm - October 25, 12:00 pm

The Millenium Harvest Hotel:
http://www.millenniumhotels.com/millenniumboulder/index.html
303-443-3850 Ask for the “Integrated Listening Systems room rate”

Equipment Overview - explanation of iLs systems, similarities & differences

Listening Test Sheet

iLs Symptoms Checklist - pre- and post-recording of symptoms in the categories of Sensory-Motor/Sensory, Auditory/Language, Social/Emotional and Organization/Attention/Cognitive

Program Schedule Sheet for the Home System - for logging listening sessions and activities

Program Schedule Sheet for the Focus - for logging listening sessions and activities

Detail Sheet for the Home System - music processing specifics to assist professionals overseeing clients

Detail Sheet for the Focus - music processing specifics to assist professionals overseeing clients

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Article Categories: Music and the Brain, Autistic Spectrum, Cerebellum-Related

Music and the Brain

Geometry Shapes the Sound of Music Journal Science, April 18, 2008
‘Geomoetrical music theory’ gives light to the math behind music

Scientists Unravel What Makes Us Creative story by Lauren Neergaard, AP, March 10, 2008
MRI scan shows that the medial prefrontal cortex fires up during creative activity, similar to the brain circuitry used during dreaming; heightened sensory awareness (touch, hearing, sight) also recorded

Study Shows Music Improves Stroke Patients’ Recovery article in Science Daily, Feb. 1, 2008

Music Training ‘Tunes’ Human Auditory System” article in Science Daily, March 13, 2007, on Dr. Nina Kraus’ research at Northwestern U. on the effect of musical training on neurological development;
“The findings also are consistent with studies by Kraus and her research team that have revealed anomalies in brainstem sound encoding in some children with learning disabilities which can be improved by auditory training.”

Music Training linked to Enhanced Verbal Skills” Science Daily 2007
“Our study indicates that the high-level cognitive processing of music affects automatic processing that occurs early in the processing stream and fundamentally shapes sensory circuitry.” Dr. Nina Kraus

“Music Thought to Enhance Intelligence, Mental Health and Immune System”
Science Daily article reports on volume 1060, The Neurosciences and Music II, of the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. Science Daily, 2006

Musicophelia: Tales of Music and the Brain, by Oliver Sacks
Very readable stories of the effect of music on brain function by the renowned neurologist and author.

Music and the Brain, by Laurence O’Donnell
Interesting article about music’s effect on the brain, with fun historical references

Music on the brain: Researchers explore the biology of music on the brain, article by William J. Cromie, Harvard Gazette, 2001

How Your Brain Listens to Music, by William J. Cromie, Harvard Gazette, 1997

Music and the Brain, Scientific American, 2004

The “Mozart Effect” - an exhaustive list of research on the topic

“Music Moves Brain to Pay Attention, Study Finds”, Science Daily 2005

American Music Conference 2007 review of a new book by Dr. Gordon Shaw, founder of the Mozart Effect, Keeping Mozart in Mind

Slideshow: Music Makes Your Brain Happy, Wired magazine 2006

Autistic Spectrum

autism-abnormal-auditory-processing-3.pdf - American Journal of Psychiatry, brief report entitled “Perception of Complex Sounds in Autism: Abnormal Auditory Cortical Processing in Children” 2004

autism-cortical-abnormalities.pdf - Developmental Brain Research, research article entitled “Cortical Auditory System Maturational Abnormalities in Children with Autism Disorder” June 2003

autism-peripheral-audio-assymetry.pdf - European Journal of Neuroscience,research article entitled “Peripheral Auditory Symmetry in Infantile Autism” 2001

Cerebellum-Related

Cerebellar Damage Impairs Automaticity of a Recently Practiced Movement,
Journal of Physiology, Lang/Bastian

Cerebellar Impairment/Dyslexia - UK government article about the theory that cerebellum is directly involved in language acquisition

The relationship between motor control and phonology in dyslexic children; role of the cerebellum and automaticity

Developmental dyslexia, learning and the cerebellum
Fawcett and Nicolson, University of Sheffield, UK

The Role of the Cerebellum in Subsecond Time Perception
MIT Press article, Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2007