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A therapist can use the same treatment procedure to treat preverbal traumas — traumas that occur before the development of verbal skills. One can access preverbal traumas by asking directly or by presenting stimuli to elicit the trauma part. In one case, a young boy had had 16 earaches between the ages of six and twelve months. I triggered emotions associated with the trauma of the earaches by putting my hand next to his ear. After I treated this trauma with EMDR, he would allow me to put my hand near his ear without an emotional response and showed no emotional reaction. This resulted in a marked change in his behavior at school. In the next session, I tested his response to the trauma-related stimuli by moving my hand near his ear, and he had no fear. I told him to imagine that I was wearing a white coat, and I put my hand near his ear. Again, emotions flooded his experience. Matching the conditions of his trauma evoked even more intense emotions then I had previously seen. I treated these emotions by using EMDR