HEARING EQUALS BEHAVIOR

     Berard's AIT was designed to normalize hearing. Distortions in hearing can sometimes be a significant contributing factor in Autism and related disorders such as:

- Alzheimer's Disease (Syptoms may occur within Dementia related illnesses),
- Pervasive Developmental Disorders (PDD),
- Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD),
- Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder (ADHD) or Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD),
- Dyslexia, and Autism.
- And other communication disorders or non-verbal conditions or developmental delays. Individuals with these disorders can often have hearing that is disorganized, asymmetrical, hypersensitive or otherwise abnormal.

     One possibility is that some of these individuals are hypersensitive to certain frequencies of sound. For example, one individual might be hypersensitive to the frequencies of 1,000 and 8,000 Hertz while her perception of all other frequencies falls within the normal range. In this case, the individual might become over stimulated, disoriented or agitated in the presence of sounds at 1,000 and 8,000 Hertz.



     Another consideration is that an individual's hearing might be asymmetrical (significantly different between the two ears). When the right and left ears perceive sounds in an extremely different way, problems with sound discrimination can occur.

PLEASE NOTE: Some people might think only about the workings of the inner ears when they consider "poor", "normal" or "good" hearing. For this reason, it's worth emphasizing that the brain is a crucial part of the auditory system. Berard's AIT was designed to normalize the entire auditory system, so it is also aimed at changing how the brain processes and organizes the input received from the ears.