Reminder: Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAMs 1 - 12) will be presented in separate posts, as follows –
Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAMs POSTS 1 - 12)
POST (1-2) Acupuncture, Animal Assisted Therapy
POST (3-4) Auditory Integration Therapy, Chelation Therapy
POST (5-6) Creative Therapy (art & music & dance & theatre), Facilitated Communication,
POST (7-9) Hyperbaric Therapy, Immunoglobulin Infusions, Massage Therapy,
POST (10-12) Physical Activity Program, Stem Cell Therapy, Vitamin Supplement Therapy
POST (3-4) Auditory Integration Therapy, Chelation Therapy
Complementary & Alternative Medicine (CAMs POSTS 1 - 12)
POST (1-2) Acupuncture, Animal Assisted Therapy
POST (3-4) Auditory Integration Therapy, Chelation Therapy
POST (5-6) Creative Therapy (art & music & dance & theatre), Facilitated Communication,
POST (7-9) Hyperbaric Therapy, Immunoglobulin Infusions, Massage Therapy,
POST (10-12) Physical Activity Program, Stem Cell Therapy, Vitamin Supplement Therapy
POST (3-4) Auditory Integration Therapy, Chelation Therapy
3. Auditory Integration Therapy
The most well-known auditory integration therapy seems to be the Berard Method of Auditory Integration Therapy (AIT). According to the Berard website, http://berardaitwebsite.com/, the Berard Method of AIT is to be differentiated from any other sound-based programs. They say that the key program elements here require that each practitioner follow the Berard AIT protocol. The key points of this protocol include – 10 days of listening sessions, directly through the Berard AIT designed headphones. This audio stimulation is provided 2 times a day for 30 minutes each session. It is acceptable, they say, to have a 1 or 2 day break but only after the first 5 days of listening. The minimum age for beginning this program is 3 years old, and there is no upper age limit.
Sokhadzel, et al. (2016) tell us that an auditory integration therapy developed by Dr. Guy Berard was studied and it was found that AIT provides important promise, but that a more standardized procedure and collection of ASD-specific data needed to be gathered. These authors did conclude that auditory discrimination of infrequent changes in streams of auditory stimuli appeared to influence sensory processing in children with ASD.
They also found that low functioning children were not able to cooperate with the ‘audiometry’ test procedures which help determine the kind of music, auditory level, sound frequency and other necessary data needed to proceed. Some children were given fidget toys to keep their hands away from the required headphones. While others were able to quietly watch nature videos with the sound off, allowing practitioners gathered that individual’s data.
< My Thoughts > **Remember… As well as creating a practice or program, the principal must meet all qualifying professional standards, certification, and licensing. It’s up to you to find out if they do. Smiles.
Reference used:
Sokhadzel, E., Casanova, M., Tasman, A., Brackett, S. (2016). Electroysiological & Behavioral Outcomes of Berard Auditory Integration Training (AIT) in Children with ASD; Applied Psychophysiology & Biofeedback Journal; V41: p. 405-420.
The most well-known auditory integration therapy seems to be the Berard Method of Auditory Integration Therapy (AIT). According to the Berard website, http://berardaitwebsite.com/, the Berard Method of AIT is to be differentiated from any other sound-based programs. They say that the key program elements here require that each practitioner follow the Berard AIT protocol. The key points of this protocol include – 10 days of listening sessions, directly through the Berard AIT designed headphones. This audio stimulation is provided 2 times a day for 30 minutes each session. It is acceptable, they say, to have a 1 or 2 day break but only after the first 5 days of listening. The minimum age for beginning this program is 3 years old, and there is no upper age limit.
Sokhadzel, et al. (2016) tell us that an auditory integration therapy developed by Dr. Guy Berard was studied and it was found that AIT provides important promise, but that a more standardized procedure and collection of ASD-specific data needed to be gathered. These authors did conclude that auditory discrimination of infrequent changes in streams of auditory stimuli appeared to influence sensory processing in children with ASD.
They also found that low functioning children were not able to cooperate with the ‘audiometry’ test procedures which help determine the kind of music, auditory level, sound frequency and other necessary data needed to proceed. Some children were given fidget toys to keep their hands away from the required headphones. While others were able to quietly watch nature videos with the sound off, allowing practitioners gathered that individual’s data.
< My Thoughts > **Remember… As well as creating a practice or program, the principal must meet all qualifying professional standards, certification, and licensing. It’s up to you to find out if they do. Smiles.
Reference used:
Sokhadzel, E., Casanova, M., Tasman, A., Brackett, S. (2016). Electroysiological & Behavioral Outcomes of Berard Auditory Integration Training (AIT) in Children with ASD; Applied Psychophysiology & Biofeedback Journal; V41: p. 405-420.
4. Chelation Therapy
In an article called Metals in Medicine & the Environment, by the faculty at Virginia University faculty.virginia.edu/metals/cases/rasnake2.html, they talk about chelation therapy in terms of its claims for usefulness in the treatment of atherosclerosis and of autism. They claim that children with autism are suspected to have put things with lead based paint in their mouth. Or, to have lead based paint in their environment. There are other man-made exposures to heavy metals in our homes in the form of treated lumber, paint, pesticides, herbicides, rodent poisons, contaminated seafood, old amalgam dental fillings and in prior mercury-based vaccines.
The proponents of chelaton therapy believe they can remove high levels of heavy metals through their treatments. The danger here, the investigators conclude, is that the high risk of the administering intravenous chelaton therapy (in at least one case death has occurred) can be worse that the effects of having heavy metals in one’s body.
Brown University, in their Child & Adolescent Behavior Letter, November 2008, advises that using chelaton therapy may put children at risk for an uncertain medical gain.” And, they caution that the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has cancelled all plans of even studying this treatment, as it is too high-risk.
< My Thoughts > **Remember… As well as creating a practice or program, the principal must meet all qualifying professional standards, certification, and licensing. It’s up to you to find out if they do. Smiles.
References used:
Metals in Medicine & the Environment, by the faculty at Virginia University faculty.virginia.edu/metals/cases/rasnake2.html
Editors: Chelaton Therapy; Brown University Child & Adolescent Behavior Letter, November 2008.
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In an article called Metals in Medicine & the Environment, by the faculty at Virginia University faculty.virginia.edu/metals/cases/rasnake2.html, they talk about chelation therapy in terms of its claims for usefulness in the treatment of atherosclerosis and of autism. They claim that children with autism are suspected to have put things with lead based paint in their mouth. Or, to have lead based paint in their environment. There are other man-made exposures to heavy metals in our homes in the form of treated lumber, paint, pesticides, herbicides, rodent poisons, contaminated seafood, old amalgam dental fillings and in prior mercury-based vaccines.
The proponents of chelaton therapy believe they can remove high levels of heavy metals through their treatments. The danger here, the investigators conclude, is that the high risk of the administering intravenous chelaton therapy (in at least one case death has occurred) can be worse that the effects of having heavy metals in one’s body.
Brown University, in their Child & Adolescent Behavior Letter, November 2008, advises that using chelaton therapy may put children at risk for an uncertain medical gain.” And, they caution that the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) has cancelled all plans of even studying this treatment, as it is too high-risk.
< My Thoughts > **Remember… As well as creating a practice or program, the principal must meet all qualifying professional standards, certification, and licensing. It’s up to you to find out if they do. Smiles.
References used:
Metals in Medicine & the Environment, by the faculty at Virginia University faculty.virginia.edu/metals/cases/rasnake2.html
Editors: Chelaton Therapy; Brown University Child & Adolescent Behavior Letter, November 2008.
PLEASE USE BACK ARROW (<----) TO RETURN TO MAIN PAGE...
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