Echolocation Studio

Therapeutic Project

We would like to find professionals who work with people with autism, particularly those with sound sensitivities to develop a new prevention and management based therapeutic teaching tool, to help improve sensory regulation and those that experience auditory overload and overwhelm in particular, by teaching echolocation to teachers and participants

What We're Trying To Achieve

Some may think that teaching people to use this skill in a situation experiencing auditory overload might be a futile task. Some may think this is an overcomplication of the situation by teaching new, extra information about one's auditory experience and make matters worse. Let me share an example to demonstrate how this is not the case.

Many of us have already experienced playing the game “Where's Wally?” This is a great example of the benefits of focusing on something small and quiet during information overload. While the “loud” big parts of the overcomplicated image may draw the eye's attention and contain too much information. But when we learn to focus and find Wally, focusing on his small “quiet” impact to the large drawing, those “loud” parts of the environment are just not as intense to the participant. I would like to apply this same principle by teaching those with this information overload to focus on echos through echolocation and this can have a positive impact on their daily sensory experience like it did for me throughout my life.

What We're Planning To Do

We are planning to create this therapeutic tool and focus on helping people with sound sensitives, training the student to focus on specific information centered around echolocation can have a positive impact on their daily living just like it does for me. This positive feedback loop evolves into the student being more attuned to the quiet, less obtrusive sounds in their environment while equally training them to ignore and perceive less extreme sounds.

This demonstrates echolocations' ability to assist students in knowing how to react to loud environments as a management tool to stop further overwhelm to the student. Echolocation can be used as a prevention tool outside of extreme environments too, as a technique to influence environments to not become overwhelming in the first place.

Despite our unique training approach; a teaching tool like this in the future can be adapted and used by existing communities that teach echolocation, while also being applied to many other neurodivergent situations as the project expands and continues its active inclusive language approach.

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How We're Planning To Do It

Experts in the echolocation field recognise a lack of teaching resources with a systematic instructional methodology to their approach. By breaking down such a complex skill into fundamental components; this giving therapists and teachers a granular view of how to teach and/or self-learn this complex skill development, broken down into singular lesson plans that are transparent in documented approaches and adaptable to the needs of the echolocation learner. Explore the sections below for more information.