AIT Therapy

[Sally44]

Has anyone used this therapy on their child, and what were the results.  I would especially be interested in any children that also had a diagnosis of Sensory Integration Disorder and Central Auditory Processing Disorder.

[Sally44]

I think the AIT stands for Auditory Integration Training.  There were two audiologists I think their names are Beard and Tomatis who were working on hearing loss and hearing distortions and found a way to improve hearing.  I think the AIT takes the Beard approach and my understanding is that it helps children/adults who have hearing distortions, or can't habituate to noise, or some noise frequencies hurt/distress them.  Typical signs of this in children are mispronouncing common words eg. saying nap instead of map.  Also not understanding word syllabels and mixing the last sylabell from one word with the first sylabell of the next word or missing off sylabells altogether eg. my son calls a computer a puter, and he calls binoculars biloculars and he calls the cinema cimema and he calls his cousin elena enena etc.  But it points to the fact that the small differences in the sounds of consonents is not being picked up and obviously has a knock on effect with understanding phonics and reading/writing.
We've got our appointment on Thursday.

[MJIthewriter]

I wonder if it goes by a different name in the USA, because I haven't heard of it.

[Sally44]

I have a fair idea of what it is.  I have visited the website of one that was mentioned to me by the man who prescribed the Irlen lenses for my son.  If my son gets a diagnosis of an Auditory Processing Disorder, that seems to suggest that AIT therapy (ie. sound therapy) could be of benefit to him as it helps the brain to receive,de-code,perceive sound as it should be.  I just wondered if anyone had tried it either in the UK or USA.

[MJIthewriter]

I haven't heard of it, but I'm sure it can be googled.