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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.

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Documented AIT Gains for Dr. Guy Berard's Auditory Integration Training Clinical Practice

"Everything happens as if human behavior were largely conditioned by the manner in which on hears."
Dr. Guy Berard, Inventor of Auditory Integration Training (AIT)
Author of Hearing Equals Behavior

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Dr. Guy Berard, now retired, was an accomplished Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) medical doctor of Annecy, France for over 40 years. Dr. Guy Berard is the original inventor of Auditory Integration Training.
Dr. Berard initially developed Auditory Integration Training to treat conductive hearing loss. The Berard AIT method is an effective way to changing hearing thresholds and perceptions by a non-pharmaceutical approach.
He developed the much more efficient and highly successful Berard AIT method, based upon the contemporary work of Dr. Alfred Tomatis.
Dr. Berard treated over 8,000 clients in his long career.
During his many years of practice, Dr. Berard identified 2,300 whom he felt would benefit specifically from Auditory Integration Training.
His amazing book (now out of print, but well worth finding!) called "Hearing Equals Behavior" documents the results from clients coming to his own medical practice.

Quote From Dr. Guy Berard:
"To claim to have cured hyperactivity or dyslexia, widely regarded as "emotional" or "mental" conditions, simply by training the ear to be either more or less responsive to particular sound frequencies seems, on the face of it, implausible and extravagant.

However, thirty years of clinical work, research and follow-up on more than 2,100 patients and study of more than 8,000 auditory cases, verifies the claim. Of the 1,850 learning/behavior problems patients, three-quarters showed very positive results and the remainder demonstrated noticeable partial improvement; none failed to show some benefit." Guy Berard, M.D.

Below are the clinical outcomes, reproduced from Dr. Berard's clinical practice and documented in his book "Hearing Equals Behavior":
Number of Ear, Nose and Throat Clients Dr. Guy Berard Treated in Total	8,000
Number Assessed as LIKELY to Benefit from Auditory Integration Training	2,300
Presenting with Dyslexia Very Positive Results Noticeable Partial Improvement No Change	1,850 76% 24% 0%
Presenting with Depression and Suicidal Tendencies Cured After First Treatment	233 93%
Presenting with Autism Significant Modification of Behavior and Lost Fear of Noise Complete Cure	48 47 1

**Dr. Berard writes these comments about his treating his own deafness:

"*When I was treating my own deafness***, more than 40 years ago with the Tomatis device under the direction of Tomatis himself, there were absolutely no rules, neither for me nor for the other patients. Each session could last 1, 2, or 3 hours, and this could be everyday, every 2 days, every week, 2 or 3 times a day, for a total of 50, 100, 150, 300 sessions.

After I built my first Auditory Integration Training (AIT) device, and because of the lack of uniformity with Tomatis's method, I decided to determine the best way to obtain the optimal results, in the minimum amount of time, while considering the various aspects of the problem. Yet, I was always concerned with the efficiency."

Dr. Berard proceeded to undergo his own treatment with Dr. Alfred Tomatis. His own hearing loss was stopped and even reversed by using this method of filtered music.

Dr. Berard then began research to improve the process in the interest of efficiency and advancement of this method and. He thus researched and developed his device called the Audiokinetron which was used successfully for years for Berard AIT.