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Berard AIT resource website for parents.
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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 Antibiotics, Ototoxic Medication, Ear Tubes:
Questions and Advice About Berard AIT Answered by
Dr. Guy Berard
About Antibiotics and Berard AIT
Many individuals ask for my advice concerning the use of drugs
during AIT. The answer is very simple:
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If a safe medical treatment, including non-ototoxic medications, has been
prescribed by their doctor, there is absolutely no problem with AIT and the
drug.
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Or, it is an
ototoxic drug, and this problem is the same for everyone,
undergoing AIT or not, everything shall be done to avoid these medications
which shall be reserved only for cases imperatively requiring their use, for
example, quinine for treating a crisis of malaria.
Ototoxic Medications include:
- Quinine
- Sodium salicylate
- Streptomycin
- Kanamycin
- Gentamycin
- Neomycin
Maybe there are
others that I don't know because they could have been
discovered since the time I stopped practicing, but I have not seen anything on
this subject in the medical publications that I receive.
The best solution for individuals is to ask their physician to avoid such
medications.
Tubes in the Tympanic Membrane and
Berard AIT
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The general rule is that AIT should not be
applied on individuals wearing tubes or having a hole in the tympanic membrane.
The reason is that tubes, as well as holes, disturb the functioning of the
eardrum; and this may interfere with a perfect result of AIT.
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The higher part of the eardrum transmits high frequency sounds to the cochlea
through the circuit of the 3 ossicles (bones) to the oval window.
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The lower part
of the eardrum transmits the low frequency sounds through the air of the
tympanic box, to the round window, and then to the cochlea.
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Consequently,
the principle of AIT, which is to send alternating sounds of
high and low frequencies to the ears, at the same intensity, will be distorted
if an anomaly exists, a tube or hole, in the eardrum. The low frequencies will
be heard weaker than the high ones.
Ear Tubes and
Berard AIT:
Training individuals wearing tubes is not at all dangerous but may reduce the
efficiency of the training."
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