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International Sound Symposium
Billie
Thompson, Ph.D.
Dr.
Billie Thompson
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Dr.
Billie M. Thompson is the Director of Sound Listening & Learning
Center™ in Phoenix, Arizona, founded in 1987, and Pasadena, California,
founded in 1994. Dr. Thompson's work has focused on helping people
of all ages‚gifted through learning disabled‚to expand their potential
and achieve their goals. She has researched, trained in, and integrated
a number of innovative and effective educational programs, and
worked with several thousand people, providing a foundational
program of Sound Listening™ Training, an educational application
of the Tomatis Method. Dr. Thompson received her B.A. from the
University of New Mexico and my M.A. and Ph.D. from Arizona State
University, where she researched and developed a theory of change.
She continued her search to find effective methods of change and
transformation, which she could use in a private educational setting.
Sound Listening & Learning Center™ is the result. |
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Dr. Thompson received her B.A. from the University of
New Mexico and my M.A. and Ph.D. from Arizona State University,
where she researched and developed a theory of change. She continued
her search to find effective methods of change and transformation,
which she could use in a private educational setting. Sound
Listening & Learning Center™ is the result. Dr. Thompson trained
and worked closely with Dr. Alfred A. Tomatis, founder of the
Tomatis Method, before his retirement in 1994. In 1991 she organized
and Dr. Tomatis' International training in the U.S., and she
has to promote his innovative work by publishing articles and
giving presentations at dozens of conferences. After co-editing
the anthology About the Tomatis Method, she edited and co-published
the English translations of Tomatis' autobiography, The Conscious
Ear, and his first book, The Ear and Language. Dr. Thompson
continues to be involved at the national and international levels
of the evolution and expansion of the Tomatis Method. Dr. Thompson
continuues to update and expand my professional training; working
with founders of such integrative methods as Rubenfeld Synergy®
Method (winner of the Humanistic Psychology Pathfinder award
in 1995), Structure of Intellect, and Neurolinguistic Programming®
and she actively seeks out new approaches and processes. In
addition to raising two children, Billie has worked as a teacher,
administrator, consultant to businesses and educational districts,
professional writer, and entrepreneur.
For
more information about Dr. Thompson's work, visit her website
at www.soundlistening.com
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