Who is Dr. Alfred Tomatis?

Dr. Alfred Tomatis created and perfected Tomatis Method. Alfred Tomatis (born January 1, 1920, died December 25, 2001), was a French Doctor who  specialised and practiced as an Ear, Nose and Throat consultant. He devoted a significant part of his professional life to studying the relation between the ear and the voice, and by extension, between listening and communication.

Alfred Tomatis’s discoveries were made in the Sorbonne’s physiology laboratory and were then presented to the Academy of the Sciences and the Academy of Medicine in Paris in 1957 and 1960. While working with opera singers in Paris in the 1950s, he discovered the importance of the ear’s listening ability. He then went on to research and develop a method of training a person’s listening ability.

These discoveries were named the « Tomatis Laws » :
• The voice contains only what the hear can hear ;
• if hearing is modified, the voice is immediately and unconsciously modified ;
• it is possible to transform listening permanently by means of auditory sitmulation undertaken over a certain time.

To achieve this he developed a system called the Electronic Ear, which when used with the Tomatis Method produces the Tomatis Effect, which effectively retrains a person’s listening ability. The resulting Tomatis Therapy he discovered, documented and proved to have a very positive effect on many aspects of a person’s life.

The Tomatis Developpement organisation, and through their licence to us, Cluas with its Registered Tomatis Centres continues the tradition of the founder of the Tomatis Method while also making this technique more accessible and more effective thanks to technological progress and scientific research carried out by the Tomatis organisation worldwide and in conjunction with the International Association of Registered Certified Tomatis Consultants.