AUDITORY INTEGRATION TRAINING (AIT)
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.
Dr. Guy Berard was the founder of the concept of AIT. Berard 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). Other products using Dr. Berard's concepts have been developed--some done very well and others only minimally using the concepts. Berard AIT is the exact one designed by Dr. Berard.
AIT is recommended when the need is demonstrated by the Diagnostic Evaluation Therapy Protocol (DETP ).
AIT can benefit many people with disorders that directly or indirectly are effected by their hearing (according to years of research by Dr. 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 or sound sensitivity in general.
Any client for whom AIT is suggested after the DETP® will be referred to a practitioner who can help them with the therapy.
Dr. Guy Berard was the founder of the concept of AIT. Berard 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). Other products using Dr. Berard's concepts have been developed--some done very well and others only minimally using the concepts. Berard AIT is the exact one designed by Dr. Berard.
AIT is recommended when the need is demonstrated by the Diagnostic Evaluation Therapy Protocol (DETP ).
AIT can benefit many people with disorders that directly or indirectly are effected by their hearing (according to years of research by Dr. 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 or sound sensitivity in general.
Any client for whom AIT is suggested after the DETP® will be referred to a practitioner who can help them with the therapy.
