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DAA: Digital Auditory Aerobics Device for AIT 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." |
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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. |
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Filtered Sound Training Device (FST) for AIT The Filtered Sound Training (FST) for AIT is a new device used by Berard AIT Practitioners for Auditory Integration Training. The FST device was also developed by Rosalie Seymour, SLP/A, the same Practitioner who originally developed the Earducator. Until recently, the only way you could access AIT has been to attend the rooms of a certificated practitioner for the ten-day duration of the training. This has been extremely inconvenient to families seeking AIT for their children, or an adult with a busy work schedule. This restriction, with the expensive equipment needed, has also added to the cost of this training. Filtered Sound Training (FST) has been developed to make it more accessible and less expensive. Filtered Sound Training (FST) uses PC technology and equipment to deliver the same quality of sound intervention in home or office or school. Since most people can access a PC, whether in your home or at your child’s school. The program is loaded onto the PC or laptop, and the programming runs the twenty sessions in the same manner. |
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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. |
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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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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.
History of AIT Devices: AIT is Not an FDA Regulated Medical Device
The original Audiokineton equipment was banned for import to the USA by the FDA only because of the wording used to describe it was as a "medical device". The FDA requires all food, drug, and medical devices to be tested by them before release in the USA, and this is a 7 - 9 year process. The original Audiokinetron equipment was being directly imported, and it bypassed the FDA. The FDA therefore required all importation to be halted until it went through their full review process.
Consequently, AIT Practitioners and their clients, many who travel hundreds of miles for treatment, were frustrated by the FDA ban on the Audiokinetron at that time, because AIT is so effective of a treatment!
A new piece of equipment was then developed that copied the banned Audiokinetron device, called he DAA: Digital Auditory Aerobics. The DAA is an easier to operate and was designed to be safer version of the original Audiokinetron, with identical auditory output.
AIT is an educational intervention. The Earducator and DAA equipment are NOT a medical device and so they do not need approval from the FDA. This equipment is not, technically, a medical device any more than a set of free weights or a bottle of vitamins is.
Initial data collected in one Auditory Integration Training Center who uses both equipment (thus no bias) suggests that the number of people benefiting from DAA equipment is identical to the older Audiokinetron equipment, and that the number of people who report "extreme benefit" (on a scale of extreme to no benefit) is higher with the new equipment than the old Audiokinetron device.
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