your certified provider of the listening program
Hi, I’m Regina!
I love music, and I love people.
Using music to help people
get better at living = living my dream.
MAYA MOSS // Founder
As a natural skeptic, when things claim to work, I always ask “how”.
When I came across The Listening Program, I wanted to know how it trained the brain. TLP works because it was designed to take advantage of the brain’s innate neuroplasticity – its ability to adapt and change, by literally building new cells and neurons.
I make a point of not recommending things I haven’t tried myself. TLP worked for me (For one, thing, I was able to change my auditory dominance . . .) and my family members.
Learn more of my story below.
Meet the Team
turning points in my life
my Listening Program Journey
began my musical journey
What can I say? I’m Asian, and my parents started me with piano lessons. I didn’t always love practicing, but I’m truly thankful. Music is in the core of my being. I literally can’t remember a time when I couldn’t read music.
Thanks, Mom & Dad.
My Steven de groote years
Ever looking for new opportunities, my parents brought me to audition for Steven de Groote, a new music faculty member at Arizona State University (ASU). He was the winner of the grand prize and all category prizes at the Fifth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition (1977) – at that point, the only winner in the history of the competition to do so.
He accepted me as his only child student. (All his other students were piano majors at ASU.) At that time, I didn’t know he was such an accomplished pianist. I just knew him as my teacher.
When Steven passed away in 1989, my dream of becoming a professional pianist died too. May he rest in peace.
at a crossroads
Nearing my undergraduate college graduation, I was trying to decide between becoming a music therapist and a special education teacher.
I ended up doing neither.
Life’s curveball
My precious, beautiful newborn baby experienced congestive heart failure, resulting in a NICU stay.
By the grace of God, she survived and was not the “vegetable” that her pediatric cardiologist said she likely would be if she lived.
One of her medications at this time was an antibiotic well known for its side effects on hearing. My husband and I consented, knowing our options were few. We would deal with the future as it unfolded.
Searching for answers
It became evident to me that something actually was “off” with our daughter’s hearing.
She was loud all the time and often said, “I didn’t hear you say that.”
Living in an area with top-notch medical care, I began bringing her to the best pediatric ear-nose-throat (ENT) doctors I could find. The results were always the same: “Her hearing is normal.”
As her mother, in my heart, I knew this wasn’t true.
She also wasn’t learning how to read. I wondered if there was a connection, and I kept searching.
my discovery
I found The Listening Program. It seemed amazing and almost too good to be true. I could help my daughter’s auditory processing and help her academically at the same time?!
My earlier attractions to music therapy and special education were colliding in my own child.
Living in a rural area, there were no TLP Certified Providers within a reasonable distance.
So I became a Certified Provider myself and began using TLP with our entire family.
Along with TLP, I also began teaching our daughter with an extensive reading and spelling program. I love homeschooling because it gave me the freedom to match the curricula to our child’s needs – and not force our child on the curricula’s demands.
VICTORY!
In the spring of her eighth grade, in her standardized tests, our daughter scored “Post High School” in all the subjects related to Reading and Comprehension.
I was so happy when I saw her results that I wept.
the pebble’s rippling in the pond
As a Certified Provider of The Listening Program, I now help adults and children get better at living.
I’m thrilled when my clients realize the progress they’ve made, often noticing results after a few weeks. Their “Wow, that’s really cool!” moments bring us both joy and sometimes even tears.
I’d love to help you get here too.