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About Our Program

Our program of sound stimulation (modified music and voice) “starts the ball rolling” in the brain - allowing development of the listening function to take shape. Improved listening has a positive impact on self-regulation, focus, learning, social adjustment and quality of life.

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We Use Sound Stimulation to Improve:

  • AUDITORY PROCESSING DISORDER (APD)
  • GLOBAL DEVELOPMENTAL DELAY
  • LEARNING DISABILITY (DYSLEXIA)
  • SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER
  • ADD & ADHD
  • VOICE QUALITY (SPEECH & SINGING)
  • AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDER (ASD) 
  • SECOND LANGUAGE ACQUISITION




    Difficulty with listening is a common factor in all these issues.
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    Video: The Child That You Do Have

    Watch the Child You Do Have Video. A full-length documentary of Autism featuring the work of Paul Madaule at The Listening Centre in Toronto. Produced by Helga-Liz Haberfellner, this documentary was first broadcasted on the Discovery Channel in 1994.

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    The Brain's Way of Healing (2016)

    The CBC Television Program The Nature of Things presented a documentary film on Norman Doidge’s book, The Brain’s Way of Healing with a segment on our work at The Listening Centre which is only available to watch within Canada at:

    View this documentary on the CBC website

    " Shortly after returning from the Listening Centre I repeated the reading test at vision therapy. The result shocked the doctors and made me ecstatically happy — I had jumped from the mechanics of a 4th grader to the mechanics of a 10th grade reader! "

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    Meet our Founder and Director, Paul Madaule

    Paul was a French 18-year-old who struggled with reading and writing and had dropped out of school before receiving help from Dr. Alfred Tomatis and his sound stimulation program. Ten years later, he was fluent in 3 languages and had already worked in 3 continents when he arrived in Toronto to start The Listening Centre, bringing to others the remarkable changes he had experienced himself!

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