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Digital Safe and Sound Protocol Home Use - Adults [Initial Consultation]
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The Digital SSP Home Use is a supervised program where clients are provided supervision by Joanne McIntyre, OT, MS [Psych]. Clients are provided access to the program via an app using their own headphones.

The Safe and Sound Protocol (SSP) Home Use (Core) is a five-hour intervention designed to reduce stress and auditory sensitivity while enhancing social engagement and resilience.  The intervention uses prosodic vocal music that has been filtered to train the middle ear muscles to focus on the frequency envelope of human speech.  Once human speech is properly perceived, the portal to social engagement has been opened.  You’ll find yourself or your child is better able to interpret not only the meaning, but the intent in conversations.  And the sense of safety that is achieved by better understanding the fluctuations in human voice, calms your (or your child’s) physiological state.  Once your system has been primed and your state is calm, further therapy is enhanced and behavioural regulation is improved.

 

The Safe and Sound Protocol is an evidence-based intervention developed by Dr Stephen Porges (Polyvagal Theory). The SSP is an acoustic vagal nerve stimulation therapy shown to improve anxiety, auditory sensitivities, communication, and social engagement. It is a unique intervention targeting bottom-up (autonomic nervous system) processing to support emotional regulation and wellness.

How to proceed? You will need to schedule an initial consultation to assess your readiness to start the program. Sessions occur via Skype with a licensed health care professional

The Safe and Sound Protocol is an evidence-based intervention developed by Dr Stephen Porges (Polyvagal Theory). The SSP is an acoustic vagal nerve stimulation therapy shown to improve anxiety, auditory sensitivities, communication, and social engagement. It is a unique intervention targeting bottom-up (autonomic nervous system) processing to support emotional regulation and wellness.

 

 

The SSP Home Support Therapy for individual clients:

  • Step 1:

    Initial Consultation. This is an important step to connect and learn about you and establish your readiness to begin the SSP program. [approx. 50- 60 mins]

You will be emailed a history and questionnaire to complete

  • Step 2:

If the Initial Consultation recommends the SSP Home Support Program

Commencing the SSP Home Support Program

  • Session 1: You will complete selected assessments and we will establish your personal goals for the program. You will learn about the Polyvagal Theory and your own autonomic state to understand your triggers and calm states. You will learn vagal regulation exercises to support you as you work through the protocol.
  • Session 2. You will continue to learn about Polyvagal informed self regulation strategies and commence the Safe and Sound Protocol listening program
  • Session 3. Mid program consultation
  • Session 4. SSP Core program completion consultation. We will review goal and plan forward

    We will work collaboratively to determine the safest listening schedule to complete the protocol to optimise the best results.. The program is customised to each person’s unique needs. The "Core" protocol is a total of 5 hours and typically is completed in 2 to 4 weeks.
     

    We maintain daily communication via text/email for program review and support.

 

  • SSP Home Support Program Fee

    Four consultation sessions as well as daily support via email/texts: ( Minimum of Three hours of Consultation time included): $195/hr for each hour of consultation

    SSP access to the Core Music: $300

 

  • Total fee for SSP Support program: $ 885

 




Safe & Sound Protocol (SSP) Additional Information

Over ten or more days, you will listen to the SSP filtered music via headphones. You will access the protocol via an app (a link with instructions to download the app will be emailed to you). Listening sessions are 5-10 minute increments (to a maximum of 30 minutes/day). The length of time depends on how your nervous system manages the input. Sessions are combined with relaxation; coregulation strategies and may include biofeedback or other clinical tools.

 

Although it is recommended to complete sessions over ten consecutive days, we work from a “less is more” policy. This means that you are closely supported throughout the protocol and monitored for signs such as fatigue or increased emotions that indicate your nervous system needs a break. This is a “Safe” before the “Sound” protocol, and it’s essential that you feel grounded before and throughout your session to maximize success.

We will develop an SSP listening plan that is individualized based on your needs. Given the small increments of time (5-30 minutes), some of the listening sessions may occur on your own at your convenience (if assessed to be safe and feasible). 

How does the SSP work?

Based on Polyvagal Theory, the Safe and Sound Protocol is modulated vocal music designed to strengthen the neural network related to listening and feeling calm. Within this neural network is the very important vagus nerve. Our vagus nerve is responsible for your body’s “rest, regulation, restoration, and social engagement.” It also links the body to the brain and vice-versa.




 

 

 

 
 
 
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OWNERSHIP.  The app is exclusively owned by Unyte-iLs and provided under license by ILA.  The Processed Music is exclusively owned by PSL.  It is expressly acknowledged that PSL does not own the underlying music (which is utilized by PSL in the creation of the Processed Music); rather, PSL owns such music as filtered, arranged and specified for listening by PSL.  Nothing contained in this Agreement shall be construed to grant User ownership rights of any kind to the Processed Music or the Intellectual Property.

  1. TERM.  The Program is rented and licensed to User for one treatment protocol period. . Each Term commences on the Effective Date (the “Term”).   User is obligated to pay the entire amount due under the Term.   

    1. Change of Term.  A User may change their designated Term by contacting ILA and requesting to change to a longer Term, with the understanding that the Rental Payment will change and that further payments need to be made prior to continued access.

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    1. The payment amount for the use of the Processed Music shall be as published by ILA on its website and/or online store from time to time (such amount, the “Subscription Payment”).  The Rental Payment shall be subject to adjustment by ILA in its exclusive discretion at any time.  ILA collects GST for Australian rentals, which is included in the price.  

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  1. TERMINATION. 

  1. This Agreement shall terminate upon completion of the clinical program.  

  2. Upon termination, User access to the app will be terminated.  

  3. Cancellation prior to completion of Term. If User cancels prior to consultation or using the app a refund will be issued minus any bank or credit charges.  Once the app has been accessed or an online consultation has occurred no monies will be refunded.


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Processed Music (PSL)

Computer altered vocal music (i.e., filtered music) designed to exaggerate the features of human prosody and hypothetically to exercise the neural regulation of the middle ear muscles. The specially adapted music uses the auditory pathway as an access point to the neural network and is intended to help people with auditory sensitivities extract human voice from background sounds and improve social communication.

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