Music Therapy

We started music therapy today. That was interesting to say the least. My youngest has a speech delay & negative pressure in both his ears. We are trying to figure out the cause of both of those & to find out if they are related. He sees an ENT (Ear, Nose, Throat) Dr at childrens for the negative pressure and is going through speech therapy through the Help Me Grow Program here. Today we started Music Therapy. It's a set of 4 cd's with music only on them. We have to listen to each one for two weeks straight-twice a day for half an hour a time-before switching to the new cd. After we get through all 4 cd's then we take a week off to evaluate the situation before moving on. Sounds simple right? The music is missing part of it's tones-they took regular music like Mozart etc and they take out a section of tones. The reason for this is that the missing tones makes your inner ear work harder, contracting and such. I believe each cd is missing different tones and we see how he reacts to each cd. I was told some kids get sleepy, some kids get calmer and some get hyper-one kid literally climbed the wall the music drove him that nuts lol So you see not so simple. Different missing tones cause the kids to react differently. Listening to the music there is no doubt it makes your inner ear work! My ears feel tingly, numb almost, it eventually went into my eyes and my forehead. I couldn't wait until the half hour was over! I know it was affecting Bryan b/c as soon as it came on he started rubbing his ear, luckily no hyperness has appeared YET. It's going to be an interesting next few months.