Reducing auditory hypersensitivities in autistic spectrum disorder: Preliminary findings evaluating the listening project protocol

Frontiers in Pediatrics

Volumn 2, Issue AUG, 2014, Pages

  Porges, Stephen W ^a   Bazhenova, Olga V ^b   Bal, Elgiz ^b   Carlson, Nancy ^c   Sorokin, Yevgeniya ^b   Heilman, Keri J ^a   Cook, Edwin H ^b   Lewis, Gregory F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c ELIZABETHTOWN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Auditory hypersensitivities; Autism; Listening; Polyvagal theory; Social engagement behaviors

Indexed keywords

EID: 85048330132     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fped.2014.00080     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Coleman M, Gillberg C. The Biology of the Autistic Syndromes. New York: Praeger (1985)
2. Dissanayake C, Sigman M. Attachment and emotional responsiveness in children with autism. In: Masters Glidden L editor. International Review of Research in Mental Retardation: Autism. San Diego, CA: Academic Press (2001). p. 239-66
3. Frith U, Baron-Cohen S. Perception in autistic children. In: Cohen DJ, Donnellan AM, Paul R, editors. Handbook of Autism and Pervasive Developmental Disorders. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons (1987). p. 85-102
4. Hayes R, Gordon A. Auditory abnormalities in autistic children. Lancet (1977) 2:767. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(77)90278-1
5. Klin A. Listening preferences in regard to speech in 4 children with developmental disabilities. J Child Psychol Psychiatry (1992) 33:763-9. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.1992.tb00911.x
6. Lockyer L, Rutter M. A five-to-fifteen year follow-up study of infantile psychosis: III. Psychological aspects. Br J Psychiatry (1969) 115:865-82. doi:10.1192/bjp.115.525.865
7. Mundy P. Joint attention and social-emotional approach behavior in children with autism. Dev Psychopathol (1995) 7:63-82. doi:10.1017/S0954579400006349
8. Rosenhall U, Nordin V, Sandström M, Ahlsén G, Gillberg C. Autism and hearing loss. J Autism Dev Disord (1999) 29:349-57. doi:10.1023/A:1023022709710
9. Ceponiene R, Lepistö T, Shestakova A, Vanhala A, Alku P, Näätänen R, et al. Speech-sound selective auditory impairment in autism: can perceive but do not attend. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (2003) 100:5567-72. doi:10.1073/pnas.0835631100
10. Dawson G. Cerebral lateralization in autism: clues to its role in language and affective development. In: Molfese DL, Segalowitz SJ, editors. Brain Lateralization in Children: Developmental Implications. New York, NY: The Guilford Press (1988). p. 437-61
11. Gage NM, Siegel B, Roberts TPL. Cortical auditory system maturational abnormalities in children with autism disorder: an MEG investigation. Brain Res Dev Brain Res (2003) 144:201-9. doi:10.1016/S0165-3806(03)00172-X
12. Gervais H, Belin P, Boddaert N, Leboyer M, Coez A, Sfaello I, et al. Abnormal cortical voice processing in autism. Nat Neurosci (2004) 7:801-2. doi:10.1038/nn1291
13. Khalfa S, Bruneau N, Roge B, GeorgieffN, Veuillet E, Adrien JL, et al. Increased perception of loudness in autism. Hear Res (2004) 198:87-92. doi:10.1016/j.heares.2004.07.006
14. Maziade M, Merette C, Cayer M, Roy MA, Szatmari P, Cote R, et al. Prolongation of brainstem auditory-evoked responses in autistic probands and their unaffected relatives. Arch Gen Psychiatry (2000) 57:1077-83. doi:10.1001/archpsyc.57.11.1077
15. Smith DE, Miller SD, Stewart M, Walter TL, McConnell JV. Conductive hearing loss in autistic, learning disabled, and normal children. J Autism Dev Disord (1988) 18:53-65. doi:10.1007/BF02211818
16. Tecchio F, Benassi F, Zappasodi F, Gialloreti LE, Palermo M, Seri S, et al. Auditory sensory processing in autism: a magnetoencephalographic study. Biol Psychiatry (2003) 54:647-54. doi:10.1016/S0006-3223(03)00295-6
17. Thivierge J, Bedard C, Cote R, Maziade M. Brainstem auditory evoked response and subcortical abnormalities in autism. Am J Psychiatry (1990) 147:1609-13
18. Marco JE, Hinkley LBN, Hill SS, Nagarajan SS. Sensory processing in autism: a review of neurophysiologic findings. Pediatr Res (2011) 69:48-54. doi:10.1203/PDR.0b013e3182130c54
19. Khalfa S, Dubal S, Veuillet E, Perez-Diaz F, Jouvent R, Collet L. Psychometric normalization of a hyperacusis questionnaire. ORL J Otorhinolaryngol Relat Spec (2002) 64:436-42. doi:10.1159/000067570
20. Borg E, Counter SA. The middle-ear muscles. Sci Am (1989) 261:74-80. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0889-74
21. Liberman CM, Guinan JJ. Feedback control of the auditory periphery: anti-masking effects of middle ear muscles vs. olivocochlear efferents. J Commun Disord (1998) 31:471-83. doi:10.1016/S0021-9924(98)00019-7
22. Zwislocki JJ. Auditory system: peripheral nonlinearity and central additivity, as revealed in the human stapedius-muscle reflex. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (2002) 99:14601-6. doi:10.1073/pnas.222543199
23. Porges SW, Lewis GF. The Polyvagal hypothesis: common mechanisms mediating autonomic regulation, vocalizations and listening. In: Brudzynski SM editor. Handbook of Mammalian Vocalization: An Integrative Neuroscience Approach. Amsterdam: Academic Press (2009). p. 255-64
24. Kryter KD. Methods for the calculation and use of the articulation index. J Acoust Soc Am (1962) 34:1689-97. doi:10.1121/1.1909096
25. American National Standards Institute. ANSI S3.5-1997: Methods for Calculation of the Speech Intelligibility Index. New York, NY: Acoustical Society of America (1997)
26. Hanks WD, Rose KJ. Middle ear resonance and acoustic immittance measures in children. J Speech Hear Res (1993) 36:218-22
27. Schiaffino S, Reggiani C. Fiber types in mammalian skeletal muscles. Physiol Rev (2011) 91:1447-531. doi:10.1152/physrev.00031.2010
28. Porges SW. The vagus: a mediator of behavioral and visceral features associated with autism. In: Bauman ML, Kemper TL, editors. The Neurobiology of Autism. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (2005). p. 65-78
29. Porges SW. The Polyvagal perspective. Biol Psychol (2007) 74:116-43. doi:10.1016/j.biopsycho.2006.06.009
30. Lord C, Rutter M, Le Couteur A. Autism diagnostic interview-revised: a revised version of a diagnostic interview for caregivers of individuals with possible pervasive developmental disorders. J Autism Dev Disord (1994) 24:659-85. doi:10.1007/BF02172145
31. American Psychiatric Association. Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 4th ed. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Association (1994)
32. World Health Organization. International Classification of Diseases. 10th ed. Geneva: World Health Organization (1992)
33. Bazhenova OV, Sorokin Y, Bal E, Carlson N, Heilman KJ, Denver JW, et al. The Social Interaction Coding Scale (SICS) (unpublished)
34. Lord C, Risi S, Lambrecht L, Cook EH, Leventhal BL, DiLavore PC, et al. The autism diagnostic observation schedule-generic: a standard measure of social and communication deficits associated with the spectrum of autism. J Autism Dev Disord (2000) 30(3):205-23. doi:10.1023/A:1005592401947
35. Seibert JM, Hogan AE, Mundy PC. Assessing interactional competencies: the early social-communication scales. Infant Ment Health J (1982) 3:244-58. doi:10.1002/1097-0355(198224)3:4<244::AID-IMHJ2280030406>3.0.CO;2-R
36. Bettison S. The long-term effects of auditory training on children with autism. J Autism Dev Disord (1996) 26:361-74. doi:10.1007/BF02172480
37. Porges SW, Macellaio M, Stanfill SD, McCue K, Lewis GF, Harden ER, et al. Respiratory sinus arrhythmia and auditory processing in autism: modifiable deficits of an integrated social engagement system? Int J Psychophysiol (2013) 88:261-70. doi:10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2012.11.009
38. Keith RW. SCAN: A Screening Test for Auditory Processing Disorders. San Antonio: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1986)
39. Keith RW. SCAN: A Screening Test for Auditory Processing Disorders in Children-Revised. San Antonio: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (2000)
40. Berard G. Hearing Equals Behavior. New Canaan, CT: Keats (1993)
41. Tomatis AA. The Conscious Ear: My Life of Transformation Through Listening. Barrytown, New York: Station Hill Press (1991)
42. Edelson SM, Arin D, Bauman M, Lukas SE, Rudy JH, Sholar M, et al. Auditory integration training: a double blind study of behavioral and electrophysiological effects in people with autism. Focus Autism Other Dev Disabl (1999) 14:73-81. doi:10.1177/108835769901400202
43. Rimland B, Edelson SM. Brief report: a pilot study of auditory integration training in autism. J Autism Dev Disord (1995) 25:61-70. doi:10.1007/BF02178168
44. Gillberg C, Johansson M, Steffenberg S, Berlin O. Auditory integration training in children with autism: brief report of an open pilot study. Autism (1997) 1:97-100. doi:10.1177/1362361397011009
45. Kershner JR, Cummings RL, Clarke KA, Hadfield AJ, Kershner BA. Two-year evaluation of the Tomatis listening training program with learning disabled children. Learn Disabil Q (1990) 13:43-53. doi:10.2307/1510391
46. Mudford OC, Cross BA, Breen S, Cullen C, Reeves D, Gould J, et al. Auditory integration training for children with autism: no behavioral benefits detected. Am J Ment Retard (2000) 105:118-29. doi:10.1352/0895-8017(2000)105<0118:AITFCW>2.0.CO;2
47. Zollweg W, Palm D, Vance V. The efficacy of auditory integration training: a double blind study. Am J Audiol (1997) 6:39
48. Gilmor T. The efficacy of the Tomatis method for children with learning and communication disorders: a meta-analysis. Int J Listening (1999) 13(12-23): doi:10.1080/10904018.1999.10499024
49. Lewis GF, Porges SW. US Patent Application No. WO2012082721 A2. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (2012)
50. Porges SW, Lewis GF. US Patent Application No. 13/992,450. Washington, DC: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (2013)