Description

Headphone version
SpatialSurround™ Dynamic with Dolby headphone technologies

The newest of the TLP Specialized CDs is Speech and Language Kids 1. It contains musical selections that were recorded because they were fun, simple in structure, short, and very accessible. Focusing on all of these elements means that a child's attention can more easily be captured and maintained.

SL Kids 1 has a significant focus on spatial awareness and sound localization. With new technologies and creative elements in recording and post-production, we are able to provide auditory stimulation in a totally new way than we have ever been able to do before.

It incorporates a combination of new processes called Spatial Surround™ (patent pending). By creating Spatial Surround, the listener is placed in the position of the conductor of an orchestra. In the middle of the orchestra, the conductor will hear sounds more individually, some very close and some a little farther away. Instead of blended sounds as you might hear them in front of the orchestra at a concert, you too will hear sounds more individually as the musicians play them around you. You as the listener can now more clearly determine the spatial properties of the sound.

We add movement to the treatment to create Spatial Surround Dynamic. This is accomplished by processing the music in a multi-channel environment that uses five completely independent tracks. This process allows us to move the sound of each instrument around in a 360 degree field.


Music

The music selected and recorded for Speech and Language Kids CD 1 includes early compositions by Mozart as well as Brahms, Beethoven, Schumann, and instrumental versions of traditional folk music and nursery rhymes.


Applications

Speech and Language Kids 1 is appropriate for enhancing receptive and expressive language, sense of melody, pitch discrimination, fluency, voice modulation and control. It may be used during reading activities, quiet or aloud at a low volume. It may also be used in connection with vocal exercises and may have some benefit with second language acquisition. This is a tremendous tool for voice coaches, reading and learning specialists, speech and language pathologists and those working with communication difficulties. It also proves helpful with attention, memory and concentration. Listeners may practice active listening with SL Kids 1 but may also hum, sing or explore their voice during their listening sessions.