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18842 Listening program media response1 Step 1 Founder -Alex Doman Alex Doman is a lecturer, producer, and inventor whose products are used by hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. He works with therapists and educators on how music listening therapy and brain fitness software is used to improve listening, learning, attention, memory, social engagement and communication abilities. He is founder and CEO of Advanced Brain Technologies, an innovative Neurotechnology company that provides brain-based solutions to consumers, schools, therapy clinics, health care facilities and the military including The Listening Program®. Alex is co-author of a new book with THE MOZART EFFECT® author Don Campbell titled HEALING AT THE SPEED OF SOUND™, about how the new science of sound and music can help us improve our lives, which will be published in 2011.

Allison Tanner- MS, CCC-SLP Allison Tanner is a speech-language pathologist for Primary Children's Medical Center working at one of their outpatient treatment facilities in Sandy, Utah. She received a bachelors of science degree in Communicative Disorders and a masters of science degree in speech-language pathology from Utah State University. Her passion has always been in helping children and adolescents attain communicative success in their community and at school through a variety of intervention techniques. She has been an ABT certified provider of The Listening Program® (ABT CP TLP) since 2007 and is currently the program coordinator for implementation and use of The Listening Program within her local Intermountain Healthcare network.

Sheila Allen- MA, OTR, BCP o-Director and Co-Founder of Pediatric Therapeutics Member of The Listening Program Clinical Testing Team

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.

Sheila has been using The Listening Program with clients since it first became available in 1999. In addition to being a member of the ABT training faculty, she is on the development team for The Listening Program (all my information came copy and pasted from advancebrain.com) Step 2: I found no information on the program besides the claims given by the organization its self. I did a search for the listening program, listening program results, listening program case studies, response to the listening program, listening program claims, test of listening program all of which came up with nothing. Step 3 After researching the product and finding next to nothing on it besides a few magazine articles that just reiterated the websites claim. There was no peer reviews for the product or any results that are unbiased about the programs effectiveness. This product is based on whether classical music will help children perform better in school and in all aspects of education and with just the claims of a few people who did the program and succeeded there is not enough useable data to provide a person with fair information about whether this product is for them or not.

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In the final section, you do not clearly answer the critical question, "Why is it not enough to just purchase the product and see if it works for you?”": -4 points