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Audio therapy is the clinical use of recorded sound, music, or spoken words, or a combination thereof, recorded on a physical medium such as a compact disc (CD), or a digital file, including those formatted as MP3, which patients or participants play on a suitable device, and to which they listen with intent to experience a subsequent beneficial physiological, psychological, or social effect.
Speech–language pathology (a.k.a. speech and language pathology or logopedics) is a healthcare and academic discipline concerning the evaluation, treatment, and prevention of communication disorders, including expressive and mixed receptive-expressive language disorders, voice disorders, speech sound disorders, speech disfluency, pragmatic language impairments, and social communication ...
Audiology (from Latin audīre, "to hear"; and from Greek -λογία, -logia) is a branch of science that studies hearing, balance, and related disorders. [ 1 ][ 2 ] Audiologists treat those with hearing loss and proactively prevent related damage. [ 3 ] By employing various testing strategies (e.g. behavioral hearing tests, otoacoustic ...
Audiology, neurology [ 1] Auditory processing disorder ( APD ), rarely known as King-Kopetzky syndrome or auditory disability with normal hearing ( ADN ), is a neurodevelopmental disorder affecting the way the brain processes sounds. [ 2] Individuals with APD usually have normal structure and function of the ear, but cannot process the ...
Vibroacoustic therapy. Vibroacoustic therapy ( VAT) is a type of sound therapy that involves passing low frequency sine wave vibrations into the body via a device with embedded speakers. [ 1][ 2] This therapy was developed in Norway by Olav Skille in the 1980s. [ 3] The Food and Drug Administration determined that vibroacoustic devices, such as ...
Voice therapy is sometimes undertaken by trans women and trans men to make their voices better match their gender. [16] Voice feminization is the desired outcome of surgical techniques, speech therapy, self-help programs and a general litany of other techniques to acquire a female-sounding voice from a perceived male-sounding voice. Voice ...
Music therapy, an allied health profession, "is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program." [ 1] It is also a vocation, involving a deep commitment to music and the desire to ...
Tinnitus retraining therapy ( TRT) is a form of habituation therapy designed to help people who experience tinnitus —a ringing, buzzing, hissing, or other sound heard when no external sound source is present. Two key components of TRT directly follow from the neurophysiological model of tinnitus: Directive counseling aims to help the sufferer ...