Auditory Integration Training (AIT)

AIT at Wanna Play

Friday, August 22, 2008 to Tuedday, September 2, 2008
Offered by

Terrie Silverman and Associates
Terrie Silverman, Training & Consultation
524 E. Jefferson Street
Oconomowoc, WI 53066
262-569-7828
Fax: 262.569.1011
terries@execpc.com

Auditory Integration Training (AIT) is a ten day, noninvasive educational and therapeutic technique which helps people to hear all frequencies more evenly, to improve in the processing of auditory input, and to decrease hypersensitivity or hyposensitivity to specific environmental or speech sounds.

Will Berard AIT help my child?
If you are interested in or need more information regarding AIT , please contact us. We will be happy to answer any of your questions.
NOTE: Auditory disorders are frequently reported in children with developmental delays and behavior challenges, including sound sensitivity and auditory processing. Auditory symptoms are not the cause of the disorder (ADD, ASD, PDD, ADHD, regulatory disorders, and auditory processing disorders). AIT may not cure the disorder but can reduce the symptoms that are interfering with auditory functioning. With the auditory interference removed, the child’s (or adolescent’s or adult’s) learning and behavioral challenges may be more easily treated.

Does your child

have difficulty coping with specific sounds?
struggle with understanding what he/she hears?
hum or talk to himself/herself?
have trouble with articulation?
sound flat without inflection?
have trouble understanding what you say?
shut down or struggle when there is much background noise?

Any of these symptoms may be an indication of imbalanced hearing, auditory processing challenges, hyposensitive (decreased sensitivity) or hypersensitive (increased sensitivity) hearing. This imbalance in hearing ability can create auditory confusion, language delays, articulation problems, behavior problems and other complications.
AIT has been used with individuals with autism, PDD, dyslexia, learning disabilities, hearing sensitivities, auditory processing challenges, attention deficit disorders and behavior challenges.

About Terrie Silverman

Terrie Silverman, M.S. received her master’s degree in speech/language pathology in 1973 from Rutger’s University and was trained in November 1992 as an Auditory Integration Training Therapist. She has been working with children, adolescents and adults with autism and developmental disabilities since 1974.

Ms. Silverman and her staff have provided Berard Auditory Integration Training throughout the United States to over 1500 individuals. She was Director of a Richmond, Virginia nonprofit family support agency for 12 years and has worked in public and private schools, residential facilities, group homes and with multidisciplinary teams in hospitals, clinics, schools and state programs.

Ms. Silverman is on the Board of Directors and a member of SAIT, the Society for Auditory Intervention Techniques, and a long time member of the Autism Society of America (ASA) and the Developmental Delay Registry (DDR), as well as the Georgiana Institute. Terrie Silverman is a Berard approved AIT practitioner.

Relocated from Virginia to Wisconsin in 1998, Ms. Silverman is interested in and willing to coordinate Auditory Integration Training sessions in communities throughout the United States. Ms. Silverman and her staff have worked with families and schools in California, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Delaware, and Wisconsin. In order to organize a session in your community, a minimum of six families need to be committed to the group. In addition, a training site will need to be located for the ten day session which is conveniently located, handicapped accessible, and has free parking.

For more information, please contact:
Terrie Silverman, Training & Consultation
524 E. Jefferson Street
Oconomowoc, WI 53066
262-569-7828
Fax: 262.569.1011
terries@execpc.com