Episode 118: How Auditory Interventions Treat Sensory Processing Dysfunction

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">My guest this week is Sheila Frick, an internationally esteemed clinician, lecturer, and pioneer in Occupational Therapy. Sheila has over 40 years of clinical experience, having worked in psychiatry, rehabilitation, and home health before specializing in pediatrics. Her expertise includes sensory processing dysfunction, sensory integration, and auditory interventions. Sheila is well-known for expanding sensory processing treatments to include sound interventions.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She has trained over 15,000 therapists worldwide to implement</span> <a href= "https://vitallinks.com/therapeutic-listening/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Therapeutic Listening</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">within their clinical practice. She lectures on topics like clinical neurology, respiration, the vestibular/auditory system, and various auditory interventions. She is also the creator and author of</span> <a href= "https://vitallinks.com/products/books/lwwb-book-discount/listening-whole-body-book/"> <span style="font-weight: 400;">Listening With the Whole Body</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, along with several other</span> <a href="https://vitallinks.com/courses/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">books and resources</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;">.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, Sheila and I discuss the connection between listening, sensory processing, sensory integration, and brain function. When most people think about sensory processing, they might think of things like sensitivity to touch or light, or maybe a child having a difficult time tolerating taste or textures in food, or maybe even somebody being overwhelmed by loud noises, but the auditory components of sensory processing go well beyond that, and we can actually use different aspects of listening as a therapeutic tool to support sensory processing and brain functioning. Learn more about Sheila Frick <a href="https://vitallinks.com/abou