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Auditory Integration Training:
Frequently Asked Questions
About Berard AIT
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ARE THERE
ANY SCIENTIFIC STUDIES
ON BERARD AIT?
 Yes! AIT is an
educational
intervention that
efficiently retrains a disorganized auditory system.
Auditory Integration Training is a
scientific method of
retraining the ear to listen and to process sounds
in a more normal manner, without distortions and delays.
While no guarantees can be made, AIT is documented to
have profound positive effects on many different types of
individuals.
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IS THE
BERARD METHOD OF AIT A MEDICAL INTERVENTION?
No.
It is considered to be an
educational intervention.
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ARE THERE
ANY SCIENTIFIC STUDIES
ON BERARD AIT?
Absolutely!
The
Berard AIT
method has over 40
years of scientific
research and
28 published
clinical studies
documenting it's
effectiveness as an
educational
intervention.
There are
new studies
being published on
the benefits of AIT
on an ongoing basis.
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WHAT AMOUNT OF TIME IS
REQUIRED?
Participants listen to
specific music using high quality
headphones for a total of ten
(10) hours for a total 20 sessions
over a 10 or 12 consecutive day period,
for 30 minutes per day,
twice a day with a
minimum of 3 hours in between listening
sessions.
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WHAT IS THE TYPICAL COST FOR THE
20 SESSIONS?
Practitioner Supervised AIT At
Home Services Are $899.
Families may do convenient supervised At Home AIT
in the USA and Canada plus other countries.
AIT At Home is available using the newer AIT systems
for home use.
Contact us
for more information.
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WHAT IS THE MINIMUM AGE TO
PARTICIPATE?
 AIT may be
done for any participant about age 3
and up. The key to success with AIT
is that the child is old enough to cooperate
and demonstrates the need.
Young children and those with autism
or other special needs who have done AIT
have demonstrated
many
positive gains!
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IS A PARTICIPANT CLOSELY MONITORED?
Yes!
The
Berard AIT Practitioners go
through an extensive
certification and training.
Their certification requires
that they follow the Berard
protocol. Berard AIT is always
done under the
supervision of a
professionally trained and
properly certified AIT
Practitioner.
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ARE THERE ANY AUDIO TESTS
NEEDED?
 The
use of filters is NOT required
for success with Berard AIT.
Even those who may have done
audio
tests may not need
additional specific filters, whether
children or adult participants.
in some cases,
audio
tests are administered if
only a participant is old enough and/or
can cooperate with auditory
testing. Audio tests may be
given prior to sessions and
after sessions to provide
information about a
participant's
auditory pattern. Such testing
may be the basis for determining
the use of
filters, if any.
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IS SPECIAL MUSIC
REQUIRED?
Yes.
The Berard Auditory
Integration Training
protocol requires that a
participant listen to a
selected type of
modulated music on
special
device developed for
Berard AIT.
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WHO INVENTED
BERARD AIT?
 Dr. Guy Berard of France
developed
Auditory
Integration
Training as a
procedure to
efficiently
retrain a
disorganized
auditory system
over 30 years ago.
He treated and
reviewed cases
for over 8,000+
clients during
his 40 year
career. He is
the author of
the
ground-breaking
book
"Hearing
Equals Behavior".
Through his
years of
research, Dr.
Berard
determined that
when
auditory
processing
is not
working
correctly, it
prohibits the
efficient
processing of
information.
Dr. Berard
understood that
hypersensitivity
to sound,
hearing
distortions
and
delays in the
auditory signals
contribute to
inefficient learning
and his clinical
results proved his
concept was correct,
over 60 years ago!
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HOW DOES
BERARD AIT ACTUALLY
WORK?
Berard AIT
uses
electronically
modulated,
randomized and/or
filtered music
to retrain the
ear and auditory
system
to work
properly.
Current
research
confirms that
Berard AIT
retrains the
acoustical
reflex
(stapedius)
muscle of the
inner ear.
How we listen to
and processed
auditory
information and
sound affects
our alertness,
attention span,
concentration,
information
processing, and
the way we
express
ourselves, both
verbally and in
writing. When
the listening
process or the
auditory system
is not working
properly or
integrated, it
can interfere
with our entire
system and our
ability to
function
optimally.
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WHAT CAN CAUSE
THE DAMAGE THAT
REQUIRES SOMEONE
TO NEED BERARD
AIT?
 There
are many
situations that
can result in
damage to
auditory
processing,
sound
sensitivity,
hyposensitive or
hypersensitive
hearing or
hearing
distortions in
people of all
ages.
Some of
possible
causes
of sound
sensitivity
include
such
things
as:
birth
trauma,
repeat
ear
infections
as an
infant
or young
child,
frequent
use of
antibiotics,
vaccine
injury,
the use of
ototoxic
medications,
heavy
metal
toxicity,
exposure
to
loud
noises,
head
injury,
traumatic
brain
injury,
stroke
and many
other
situations.
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ARE THERE ANY
SUCCESS STORIES ABOUT
BERARD AIT?
Absolutely!
Read the many
success
stories
and
testimonials
written by parents
of special needs
children and also
adults who
completed the Berard
method of AIT -
with remarkable
gains!
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WHAT
HAPPENS
AFTER BERARD
AIT?
 Once the
cause of
the
auditory
processing
or
hearing
problems
are
corrected
- such
as
hearing
distortions,
hypersensitive
hearing,
hyposensitive
hearing,
sound
sensitivity
- then
other
therapies
and
educational
programs
become
more
effective
in
producing
changes
that
enable
the
individual
to
achieve
a new
level of
success.
Learn
if your child or someone you love may benefit!
Complete a comprehensive
On-Line AIT Checklist
now!
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