Auriol, La Clef des sons.

Man is above all a speaking being. The management of his listening, speaking, reading and spelling determine his comfort and social adaptation, or at least are largely conditioned by them. For their part, the learning of foreign languages as well as the practice of music and singing depend to a large extent on our capacity to use the ear and the cerebral and emotional systems that control it. The importance of these data raises a series of questions which it is now possible to formulate and clarify. Can the stimulation and exercise of auditory functions by means of appropriate techniques change the future of an individual who suddenly becomes motivated to read and study, to form relationships, to undertake actions that he or she had previously been uninterested in? What about the evolution of aural and musical skills from childhood to adult? What credence should be given to the notion of 'auditory laterality' and dichotic testing? What re-education devices are currently available and what is the interest of instruments such as those of Guberina, Tomatis, Beller, the Akousmatix, or more simply the use of equalisers, computers, filters? Are there any known and reliable links between sounds and impulses? In this respect, this book presents experimental and clinical theoretical data accumulated over the last fifteen years. Practitioners of sound - speech therapists, ENT specialists, paediatricians, musicians - as well as psychotherapists, psychologists and educators, will not fail to perfect their information and, subsequently, their training in the vast field of psychosonics.