Auditory Integration Training (AIT) is for individuals (from age three to ninety) with hypersensitivity to sound, lack of awareness of sound, and the inability to discriminate sound differences. The Home Program is for anyone unable to travel long distances daily for 10 days but the person must be able to initially listen with headphones comfortably.

AIT builds the foundation for good hearing by “retraining” how a person hears. Research indicates that if sound is partially blocked or is painful, successive flexing and extension of the middle ear muscles will increase their mobility and decrease pain. This stimuli influences portions of the brain that correlate with our auditory pathways. AIT randomly introduces low and high pitched sounds to the auditory system, increasing blood flow to the brain, adding to the overall positive effect. Therapy consists of 20 half hour sessions (twice daily for ten days). The Home Programs are modeled after the work of Dr. Guy Berard.

AIT is recommended when the need is demonstrated by the Diagnostic Evaluation Therapy Protocol (DETP®). The DETP results determine if the person is able to do the Home Program.

AIT can benefit many people with disorders that directly or indirectly are effected by their hearing (according to years of research by Dr. Guy Berard). Common problems addressed include symptoms associated with: Autism, Dyslexia, AD/HD, PDD, Central Auditory Processing problems, Fluency problems, hypersensitivity to sound, hyposensitivity to sound (tuning out sounds) and other disabilities and developmental delays. Please note, it is not the disorder that is helped, but the function of one’s hearing sense. 

The AIT Home Programs are offered through The Davis Center in Succasunna, New Jersey only after the DETP determines if the program is appropriate.