AIT is the #1 clinically studied auditory based educational intervention!  All sessions are conveniently completed at home under the supervision of an AIT Practitioner. AIT services are available in the USA, Canada and other English speaking countries.

AIT requires 10 hours of sound therapy, with 20 sessions of 30 minutes each, done 2 times daily over 10 consecutive days.  This listening therapy helps to correct hyperacute hearing,  tinnitus and other auditory challenges.

AIT has been used successfully with children and adults with many different diagnoses for over 60 years.  

Remarkable results are achieved for many families. There are more than 60+ years of clinical research and 28+ scientific studies on AIT.

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Tribute Dr. Guy Berard, Renown Inventor of Berard Auditory Integration Training and Author of "Hearing Equals Behavior"

A tribute by Rosalie Seymour, Berard AIT Practitioner

Dr. Guy Berard died in his home in Annecy, France on June 22, 2014 at the age of 98.
He is the inventor and founder of the Berard Method of Auditory Integration Training and his important work touched the lives of many children for decades working with AIT Practitioners trained in his method, around the globe.

"Over a million people worldwide owe a grateful acknowledgement to this man.
He leaves a legacy of dedicated practitioners, who are faithful to his protocol, and some who continue to develop his protocol to make it even more accessible to a wider range of people."

Dr. Guy Berard in France

On June 26, 2014 Dr. Guy Berard died at the age of 98, attended by his wife Nicole, and his physician.  He lived in Les Ollieres, in the region Haute-Savoie, France, in the foothills of the Alps.

So, quietly, passed a man who contributed greatly to the well-being of many people in his medical practice. But it is especially as the originator of the method he named 'Auditory Integration Training' that he will be remembered.

By his own account, he went to work in Indochina and Cambodia as a medical doctor since there were few opportunities available in France at the time. He reports being strongly influenced in his approach to his patients by his assistant who advised him not to talk so much to the patients, just fix them! He brought this philosophy into all he did, being an immensely practical man who physically built his own clinic with his own hands. 

Dr. Berard recounts how he returned to France from time to time to take a number of further specializations, notably in Otorhinolaryngology (ENT) surgery.  Upon the fall of Cambodia he returned to France, and it was there that he became aware that his hearing was deteriorating with attendant tinnitus. Here followed a series of trips to find someone who could help him. As he said: "All agreed that there was no treatment, and that (he) would be completely deaf in 5 years."

Around this time he met Dr. Alfred de Tomatis whose work with modified music and sound to retrain the ear and psyche had been in operation for some years. Dr. Berard joined Tomatis' clinic, but it soon became apparent that these two thinkers were pursuing opposing concepts: Tomatis the emotional and psychiatric, and Berard the practical and mechanical one. Since he was not silent in his opinions, he soon found himself 'set free' to continue developing his own method, which we now know as AIT and Filtered Sound Training, which is the newest computer based AIT system currently used.

Thanks to the huge efforts of Annabel Stehli and her husband, Peter, who formed the Georgiana Organization to promote AIT, Dr. Berard was brought to the USA to train practitioners. When I travelled from Cape Town, South Africa, in May 1994 to be trained by him he was 78 years old. I was struck by his immense wiry energy, his fitness, and sense of humor. I recall how after a full day of teaching in Westport, Connecticut, USA, he arranged a pair of bicycles with Peter Stehli's help, because he needed to get out and moving. Peter told me he would travel anywhere he would be allowed to scuba! Didn't he break his collarbone skiing at the age of 88?

In 1999, after I had developed the Earducator in South Africa, I took it to him in his villa in Annecy (Les Ollieres), to seek his approval and comment. He was a gracious host, and he and Nicole treated me to a wonderful meal overlooking the Lac d'Annecy with its 'fete du Lac' fireworks show. He was then still as sharp and as fit as ever.  Watch a short 4 minute video about this.

Today we can list centers all around the world offering AIT, from the UK and Ireland to South Africa, from the USA and Canada to Indonesia and China. In many different countries and in many different languages, children and adults with disorders relating to listening and integration are being helped to live  more competent lives.

Over a million people worldwide owe a grateful acknowledgement to this man. He leaves a legacy of dedicated practitioners, who are faithful to his protocol, and some who continue to develop his protocol to make it even more accessible to a wider range of people.

Dr. Berard (far right next) to Rosalie Seymour and others in France

I have been always guided by his strong conviction that we need to not place impossible burdens on the children or their parents, e.g. by unnecessary expense, or unnecessary testing. But above all as a Practitioner I valued his approach to the support of practitioners. Whereas similar auditory methods make their practitioners pay huge sums to maintain their licenses, Dr. Guy Berard set us free to pursue our practices as our wit and energy took us. He was always there with advice and counsel. He used to describe the 'white rivaire' of faxes pouring into his office daily. He always answered them!

So we honor a great man, whose life's work has made an indelible mark on the landscape of assessment and intervention.