Bridging Audiology and Psychology

%5,'*,1* $8',2/2*<$1' 36<&+2/2*< misbehave in class and went unnoticed. Her attitude was more concerning than her school difficulties. Her worst moment was when the teacher made her read aloud in front of everyone. That was a mirror in which she did not want to see herself. When I asked her to read me a few lines, she flatly refused. We can see in the right ear of her first test how the bone curve falls off around Sector 2. Progress with Sara through auditory re-education was quick. Her attitude changed radically. After a short time, she surprised all of us by volunteering as a narrator at a school festival and began to read effortlessly in front of hundreds of people, microphone in hand, something unthinkable months before. A feat that corresponds to this test: Both curves are approaching the ideal listening pattern, according to Tomatis, especially the right ear. Sara’s schooling continued normally from then on, but in one of the periodic checks we carried out, I found her curve to be somewhat disjointed again: She had suffered a severe otitis, which had left her with a slight right facial hemiparesis. She had recovered fully, but the audiometry picked up the impact. Fortunately, this was a temporary setback, with no consequences.