Forbrain: Enhancing Speech and Language Fluency Through Auditory Feedback
Forbrain is an award-winning neural device designed to enhance language and speech fluency. It is a universal tool, it can be used by anyone from the age three and above. Forbrain can be used as a stand-alone tool or as a complementary tool to various speech therapies.
Forbrain is the flagship product of Sound for Life and has inherited its science from the Tomatis Method, the most advanced program in Sound Therapy which has evolved over a period of sixty years. It is the natural process by which every individual perceives, analyses, assimilates, and continuously adjusts the information received and produced through sound.
How Forbrain Works
To function properly, this audio-vocal loop draws on the abilities of auditory discrimination, phonological awareness, and integration of rhythm that each person activates effortlessly. These skills are natural to human function and go far beyond speech. The user hears their own voice filtered with alternating contrasts. This shifting of sound or alternation will occur mainly at the beginning of spoken words and long vowels; they are also called the “clear sounds” that are essential for building language. By hearing and choosing this new perception of sound play, the user instantly and subconsciously improves the quality and rhythm of the voice.
Forbrain headphones amplify high-frequency vibration and simultaneously diminish low-frequency to help the user create and process sound. The patented electronic dynamic filter blocks out environmental noise-isolating and amplifying the user’s voice, giving the nervous system a solid sensory workout. It also enhances long vowels and other sounds critical to the construction of language.
Benefits of Using Forbrain
Forbrain has shown conclusive results in enhancing language and speech fluency. Here are some speech and language challenges it can help with:
- Speech Sounds Disorders - it is the inability to make certain sounds or put sounds together into words.
- Language Disorders - it is the inability to understand what we hear or read and not being able to communicate our thoughts to others.
- Learning Disorders - learning encompasses the ability to read and write.
- Social Communication Disorders - it is the inability to follow rules e.g. how to take turns, how to talk to different people, or how close to stand to someone when talking.
- Voice - it is the inability to have control over how our voice sounds.
- Fluency - also called stuttering, is how well speech flows.
Who Can Use Forbrain?
Forbrain is a universal tool, it can be used by anyone from the age three and above. Forbrain can be used as a stand-alone tool or as a complementary tool to various speech therapies.
To ensure successful results, users are recommended to practice daily for 20 minutes for at least 40 days.
Clinical Study
An independent clinical study conducted by Carles Escera, PhD, Professor, Director of Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, University of Barcelona investigated, in a double-blind controlled experiment, the potential effects of the Forbrain on natural speech.