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Auditory Integration Training is an Educational
intervention.

Berard AIT is an auditory intervention that consists of
10 hours (20 sessions) over 10 or 12 consecutive days, under the supervision of professionally trained AIT Practitioners who follow the Berard AIT protocol.

The minimum recommended age for AIT is 3 years of age.

AIT is a sound therapy with many scientific studies.

All information provided here is for educational purposes.
 

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AIT Devices: Equipment Used for Auditory Integration Training

Information about DAA Digital Auditory Aerobics, Earducator, Audiokinetron, BGC Equipment

DAA: Digital Auditory Aerobics
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The DAA exactly replicates the auditory output of the French-made AudioKinetron, the original AIT device.

Research using the Audiokinetron applies to results achieved with the DAA device.

DAA Digital Auditory Aerobics was released for sale in the USA after the FDA informed the manufacturer in writing, in September, 1998, that "the product is not subject to FDA regulation."

Earducator
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The Earducator is a device used by many Berard AIT Practitioners worldwide for Auditory Integration Training.

The Earducator device was originally developed by Rosalie Seymour, SLP/A who engaged the services of a gifted electronics engineer for it's further development and manufacturing. By August 1998, the Earducator was released for use throughout the world for Berard AIT and was given Dr. Guy Berard's approval and endorsement. It was well received at the first International Association of Berard Practitioners conference in Antwerp, 2000. 

Audiokinetron Device for Auditory Integration Training

The older Audiokinetron device was invented by Dr. Guy Berard  in France.  This device is now being phased out and is no longer manufactured or serviced. The official FDA position is that if the Audiokinetron is used solely as an aid to education, it is not considered a medical device and is not subject to FDA regulation.

How Does the Audiokinetron Work?

  • A great variety of music was used with the Audiokinetron, including jazz and reggae.

  • The AudioKinetron is a two stage device.. It splits music into low and high frequencies, and into soft and loud amplitudes, sending them alternatively to the headphones.

  • The Audiokinetron randomizes loud and quiet sound levels and also low and high pitched sounds.

  • The first stage is a simple cuts only graphic equalizer that is designed to lower certain sound frequencies by forty decibels.

  • The second stage functions by taking music and creating from it a series of powerful, short duration, random, high frequency pulses.

  • Overall loudness is gradually increases during the 10 day Berard method AIT sessions.

  • As the participant listens to the music, the participant's auditory system is fed the accompanying pulses. At first, the hypersensitivity causes the brain to react. But by the time participant's brain overcomes the time delay, the pulse is gone. The brain no longer has anything to defend against so it relaxes. Eventually the brain learns it is futile to either try to predict or respond to the short duration stimulus, so hyperactivity starts to diminish.

BGC Device for Auditory Integration Training

  • Bill Clark, an audio engineer familiar with the Audiokinetron was the developer of the BGC device.

  • The BGC was made in the USA to duplicate the French Audiokinetron device.

  • Dr. Steve Edelson researched the scientific efficacy of the BGC and the AudioKinetron in 1992 and found them to be comparable.

  • This older BGC device is still in use by a few AIT Practitioners.  However, it is no longer manufactured or serviced.

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