Is it difficult for you to understand conversation in noisy places?

Have you ever had trouble forming your thoughts into words? Or had the impression that once you’ve spoken, it’s not what you really had wanted to say?

Do you know a child with language delays or difficulty communicating?

Perhaps you know someone with speech or articulation problems?

Are you struggling to learn a second language? Or do you want to reduce your accent?

Language delay or difficulties cause frustration, anxiety, behavior challenges, and impacts on social and academic growth.

The Berard method of AIT is well documented for its ability to retrain auditory processing. It also specifically stimulates the language centers, thereby improving the ability to develop language, or to learn new languages more easily. Our ability to identify and discriminate sounds must become automatic so that these sounds can become words. Berard AIT automates this process so thoughts can be better organized and be sequenced into expressive language that represents what we really want to say.

Language is a vast realm and Berard AIT impacts all of its many different facets.

Language Development

There are many reasons for delayed or lack of language development, either in the area of language comprehension or expressive language or both. Berard AIT directly targets the language centers in the brain to stimulate language development for comprehension and expression.

Although initial language learning takes place in many different areas of the brain, it is well established that the principal language centers are located in the left hemisphere. Berard AIT can be customized to stimulate the left-brain, consequently activating two of the major language centers located there. This “language stimulation” technique of Berard AIT retrains the system, stimulating the neurons to create new pathways, a natural phenomenon known as neuroplasticity.

Second Language Learning

Second language learning is a challenge that can have a critical impact on the quality of our lives. Living, working and socializing in our non-native country, without adequate language skills, can be problematic.

The base of understanding, and of speaking any language, is the ability to discriminate one speech sound from another, identify and remember these sounds by imprinting them in our brains, stringing them together to make a word, and finally understanding what that word represents.

Berard AIT improves the ability to identify and discriminate between different sounds, enabling us to better imprint the unfamiliar sounds of a foreign language, which in turn, helps us understand and speak the language.

Accent Reduction

Accents can be regional, depending on where we learned our native language, or acquired, as when we speak a second “learned” language.

In both cases, we are reproducing what we hear.

Our brains don’t recognize all the sounds we hear in a foreign language, and if we can’t recognize the sounds, we can’t correctly produce them. And it’s not just the sounds that are difficult to perceive; Changes in pitch and intonation are critical factors in language and impact both comprehension and expression.

To reduce your accent, either regional or acquired, you must imprint new sounds in your brain so that you can precisely identify, recognize, and reproduce them. And to imprint new sounds you must be able to differentiate them from other sounds.

Berard AIT is well known and well documented for its ability to improve auditory processing, the exact skill needed to identify and learn new sounds. Berard AIT enables you to better perceive the sounds and to better reproduce them.