The EASe
CD #1 was created in 1996 by Vision Audio Inc. as a way to bring
Electronic Auditory Stimulation technology to the general public. It is
comprised of up tempo, emotionally positive, instrumental music encoded
with high frequency burst equalization. This results in music that is
mostly soft or dull with very short random bursts of high frequency
information like cymbals. These bursts of high frequency energy help the
brain to habituate to common noise.
Some children, because of a
brain injury either before, during or after birth, are unable to cope with
the range of sound volume that average people take for granted. These
children become ultra-sensitive to sounds, even low volume sounds. When
these children are 18 months and younger, they exhibit startle reflexes to
a vacuum cleaner in the next room or many other normal acoustic events. By
the time they reach three or four years old, some of these children appear
deaf, and have developed defensive mechanisms to protect them from
unbearable noise. However, their auditory defensiveness is not proper
habituation. It is a global "shut down" that isolates them from the world
and prevents them from acquiring language. In many cases these children
are diagnosed as "autistic". In other, milder cases the child may be
diagnosed with Attention Deficit disorder. In yet milder cases a child may
not be identifiable as having any auditory issues but may not be achieving
the academic levels that his intellect would indicate. Other individuals
have become ultra-sensitive to sound for many other reasons such as brain
tumor surgery. It has been speculated that as many as 20% of the general
population is over or ultra-sensitive to common noise.
The EASe
(Electronic Auditory Stimulation effect) compact disc series is a music
product that is easy to use the in the home by parents, employing the
simplest of tools such as a portable compact disc player and high quality
headphones. The EASe CDs contain music that has been modified by a
filtering system that removes the upper frequencies for the majority of
the listening time (creating a soft, somewhat muddy sound) and then
randomly and transiently boosts the high frequencies to much higher than
nominal levels.This transient auditory stimulation has the effect of
stimulating (and in doing so, helping to organize) the auditory areas of
the brain, but because it is short in duration, does not elicit a
defensive response. Eventually the listener acclimates to the presence of
sound and is able to perceive it more normally.
It is important to
note that EASe is not a cure for anything, especially ADD, Autism, ADHD,
etc. EASe can help DESENSITIZE an individual to common noise thereby
allowing other methods of intervention to be more effective. We frequently
see improvements in a child such as improved language, eye contact,
affection, balance, etc. However these secondary effects of EASe are a
result of the child's ability to experience the world through their now
uncluttered senses and the resulting neurological growth not as a direct
result of EASe.
Minimum Order 3 EaseCD
The EASe CD costs
$59.00
plus $8.00 for priority mail shipping &
$15.00 for
international shipping.
