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| G. Alexander Doman |
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G. Alexander Doman is the Founder, President and CEO of Advanced Brain Technologies (ABT), a neurotechnology company that develops and distributes interactive software and music programs for the improvement of memory, attention, listening, academic skills, sensory processing, brain health, peak performance and more.
Alex is the third generation of a pioneering family of neurodevelopmental specialists working with pediatric and adult populations since the 1940's. Prior to founding ABT he served as Executive Director of the National Academy for Child Development.
For the last 15 years his career has been focused on research, product development, and education primarily in the areas of psychoacoustic music technologies and brain fitness software. Alex leads the international multidisciplinary team who is responsible for creating all ABT products including the Music-Based Auditory Stimulation™ method The Listening Program® together with other music programs; SoundHealth®, Music for Babies™, iListen™ and Spatial Surround® HD. Further products include BrainBuilder®, an interactive brain fitness software program.
Alex has developed curriculum for and trained thousands of health, therapeutic, education, and music professionals as Providers of The Listening Program®. He is a frequent invited lecturer at international conferences and his work is regularly covered by the press. Alex is a music producer, writer and inventor with patents pending on methods to improve auditory processing, spatial awareness and apparatus and method for transmitting auditory bone conduction.
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Sheila Allen, MA, OTR, BCP
Co-Director and Co-Founder of Pediatric
Therapeutics
Member of The Listening Program Clinical
Testing Team
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Sheila is an occupational
therapist with over twenty years clinical
experience, and a longstanding appreciation
for the influence of sound in our daily
lives and the value of sound in facilitating
change. She is Co-Director/Co-Founder of
Pediatric Therapeutics, a children's therapy
center, and Integrated Soundwork, a specialized
practice combining sound modalities with
sensory integration, both located in Chatham,
New Jersey. She has been using The Listening
Program with clients since it first became
available in 1999. She is also a member
of the ABT training faculty and development
team for The Listening Program.
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| Melissa Kahn, MS, OTR/L |
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| Melissa is a Pediatric Occupational Therapist with a Masters of Science from Columbia University. She is the owner of Sensory Kids LLC, a private practice located in Greenwich, CT that specializes in the latest sensory integration treatment for children of varying ages and disabilities with a focus on sensory processing difficulties. Melissa designed her practice to offer a unique platform of sensory integrative techniques combined with cutting-edge auditory technology to provide comprehensive, multi-sensory therapeutic treatment and programming. She has been using The Listening Program since 2001 and became a Certified Provider in 2004. Melissa is also a member of the ABT Training Faculty. |
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| Susan Beasley, OTR |
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| Sue is an occupational therapist
who has worked with pediatric populations
in hospital, school and private clinic settings
since 1992. She is certified in the administration
and interpretation of The Sensory Integration
and Praxis Tests and has completed extensive
professional coursework in sound and sensory
integration modalities and manual therapy
techniques. As a private practitioner in
north central New Jersey and Co-Director
of Integrated Soundwork, Sue has been in
corporating the use of sound stimulation
with sensory integration techniques as a
Provider of The Listening Program since
its introduction in the United States. She
is also a member of the ABT Training Faculty. |
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| Mary Padula, MA, CCC/SLP |
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| Mary has been practicing
as a certified and licensed Speech-Language
Pathologist in the state of Ohio since 1985,
and has been in private practice since 2000.
She co-founded and is President of Person
Centered Therapies, Inc., a therapy group
specializing in the use of complimentary/holistic
therapies to heal and develop the whole
person, specializing in sensory processing
disorders as manifested in children with
autistic spectrum disorders, genetic disorders
and global and verbal dyspraxia. Mary has
had a wealth of educational and teaching
experience in complimentary therapies and
their effect on speech, language and communication
development. She has been using The Listening
Program since 2001, and became a certified
provider in 2004. Mary’s life experience
as an inner city missionary, live in care
taker of adults with special needs, member
of inter- and multi- disciplinary therapy
teams, and administrator has given her a
broader scope of practice when assessing
and working with families. |
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| Sally Bober, MA, CCC-SLP |
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| Sally received her B.A. and M.A. in Speech-Language Pathology from the University of North Texas. She has been active in the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and the Texas Speech-Language-Hearing Association. She served as Legislative Councilor for ASHA for four years and was on the TSHA board for over twenty years. She was elected Alumnus of the Year in 2004 for the University of North Texas. She has continued working in private practice specializing in clients with Autism, PDD, ADHD and individuals with Sensory Processing Disorder and works in three private clinics. She is a nationally known speaker and often speaks with other healthcare professionals and parent groups. She was the fifth site in the United States to do AIT. She currently is a Certified TLP Provider, offering Bone Conduction and Learning Ears. She is married and has two children--Nicholas 27 and Jeffrey 23. |
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| Gayle L. Moyers |
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| Gayle L. Moyers founded the Moyers Center for Learning in San Diego, which delivered innovative interventions to challenged learners for 20 years. She is currently president of Moyers Learning Systems in Austin, TX and the developer of Learning Ears®. She specializes in developing auditory interventions to improve auditory processing for adults and children, and mentors therapists in this field. She holds a California Teaching Credential and is a Certified Educational Therapist. |
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| International
Training Faculty |
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| Alan R Heath |
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| Alan is a Director of Learning Solutions, an organisation based in Yorkshire, UK that for over 10 years has been dedicated to helping children and adults maximise their learning potential. He is an accredited Brain Gym® Instructor, NLP Practitioner and the UK and Eire trainer for The Listening Program®. He works extensively in schools in the UK and internationally, training teachers in Brain Gym, Accelerated Learning and Auditory Processing. He is the author of ‘Beating Dyslexia A Natural Way’ published in 1997 and runs a consultancy service for children with a range of learning and sensory difficulties combining sound stimulation and movement work. |
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| Tracey Butler |
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Tracey Butler is a director of Links to Learning, an organisation based in Adelaide, SA that provides a service for children and adults experiencing learning and auditory processing difficulties. Links to Learning’s success was born from her own son’s frustration, with her only regret being that her work in 2001 was not sufficiently developed for him to reap the benefits which Links to Learning has since bestowed on countless others.
Links to Learning are the Australian Representatives for Advanced Brain Technologies in Australia and New Zealand and Tracey has been a member of the ABT Training Faculty since 2004 delivering The Listening Program® training course.
Tracey has been invited to present at international conferences and her work has frequently attracted the attention of the media.
Tracey has a passion to build the awareness of The Listening Program in Australia and New Zealand, so that more individuals experiencing Auditory Processing difficulties can utilise this valuable program to help them overcome their challenges and realise their own true potential. |
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| Veronica Steer, BAppScOT, RegOT, AccOT |
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Veronica Graduated in Occupational Therapy in Adelaide, South Australia in 1975. Sensory Integration has been her primary focus and drive to improve the underlying central nervous system foundations for learning, coordination and behavioral organization. Veronica has worked predominantly with children with multiple disabilities, developmental and learning difficulties and those within the autism spectrum. Neurodevelopmental therapy training assisted her work with children with cerebral palsy.
Veronica ventured into private practice in 1989 and developed a large sensory integration, practice, OT for Children over 15years.
Veronica has been a Faculty Member of Sensory Integration Australia since 1990 and has had great pleasure in training therapists in this field. Veronica has also been member of various OT Association committees and the OT Registration Board.
Veronica became a Sound Therapist in 2000 as she believed it further supported the sensory integration principles of ensuring the CNS is accurately registering and integrating auditory sensory for listening, language, literacy and learning.
Since 2005 Veronica has been a sole practitioner using a combination of OT, Sound Therapy and LEAP Brain Integration Kinesiology working with all ages.
Veronica has also spent the last three years assisting Barbara Pheloung of Sydney Australia, with her Move to Learn Seminars and recent book School Floors. Barbara is a dedicated teacher and author of books regarding understanding Learning Difficulties and assisting parents, teachers therapists around the world.
Veronica has been a member of the ABT Training Faculty since 2004.
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| Leon H. Flores, M.D., Otoneurologist, Audiologist |
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He received his Medical Degree in 1985 from the Universidad de Monterrey
After competing his residency in Audiology and Otoneurology in 1991 at the Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social in Mexico City, he established a Private Practice and Founded the Centro Audiologico Miravalle where he evaluates diagnose and treat patients with hearing and/or vestibular problems.
He also is the Medical Director of Instrumentos Auditivos y de Diagnostico in Monterrey, since 1994.
He is part of a Coclear Implant group since 1999.
He has special interest in CAPD and vestibular problems.
Looking for therapies for treating CAPD he became interested in the TLP, and was trained at ABT on nov 2002. He became facilitator for the TLP in Mexico.
Now he is also working in a new project for an auditory and vestibular rehabilitation center.
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| Gaby Urdiales |
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Gaby Urdiales graduated from the Intstituto Tecnológico de Monterrey in Computer Science and has been involved in the field of Audiology since 1991. She is interested in the learning process and the effects of hearing and listening in child development. Gaby is certified from the Council for Exceptional Children in 2005 for Integrated Educational Programs development. She is a Certified Provider for The Listening Program® and on the ABT Training Faculty in Mexico since 2004. Gaby is also an International Representative of Fast Forword in Mexico. She is co-founder of Centro de Audiologia Educativa, for development and coordination of comprehensive programs for improving central auditory processes to enhance communication and learning potential. Gaby is pursuing her Masters Degree in Education, with specialty in Educational Psychology.
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