Autism, A High Risk of Diminished Hearing
In-home, fun screening observation activities provide insights into behaviors and learning difficulties.
Benefits of Auditory Integration Training
Researchers in two different studies found stronger auditory neural pathway scores after auditory integration training. Parents reported improvements in:
- Sound tolerance
- Less hyperactivity
- Decreased irritability
- Fewer repetitive actions
- Improved emotional regulation
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Finding Typical and Atypical Hearing Loss
Behavioral characteristics of sound intolerance associated with hearing loss can include severe sound sensitivity.
Cheri supports you through referrals and understanding what is found with the goal of improving client’s response to auditory integration training and maintaining progress.
Roger Focus FM System suppresses background sounds improving listening with comprehension.
Hearing Tests are Possible for All
Cheri provides you a letter for the audiologist with your case summary improving communication. Listening activities prepare you for hearing tests improving accuracy of responses. Today technology provides hearing tests that require no response enabling testing of all ages, with and without speech.
Researchers Found Higher Risk of Hearing Loss
Astonishingly, a 12-year study in Sweden found hearing loss at a higher rate in 199 children (153 boys, 46 girls) diagnosed with autism (21-7 yrs.) when compared to studies researching hearing loss in typically developing children. Interestingly, researchers found several different types of hearing loss.
- Mild to Moderate Hearing Loss in the cochlea – Testing of inner cochlea hairs required a response
- Severe to Profound Central Hearing Loss – hearing loss in the brain was diagnosed with an Auditory Brainstem Response Test (ABR) assesses the inner ear’s cochlea and auditory pathways to the brain – requires no response
- Conductive Hearing Loss from ear infections negatively affects eardrum movement and middle ear bone movements – testing requires no response (Rosenhall, U., Nordin, V, Sandstrom, M., Ahlsen, G., Fillberg, C., 1999. Autism and hearing loss. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 29:5)
In addition, researchers also found that studies of typically developing children found much lower percentages (0.1% – 0.2%) of pronounced and profound hearing loss (Braden, 1994; Davis, Wood, Healy, Webb, Rowe, 1995; Kankkunen, 1982; Martin et al., 1981; Parving, 1983; Sehlin et al., 1990; van Rijn, 1989).
In conclusion, the chart below shows the percentage of different types of hearing loss found in children with autism. Overall, individuals diagnosed with autism have a much higher risk of hearing loss.
Hearing help exist for everyone, all ages and abilities. Cheri supports you emotionally while helping you step-by-step advocate, communicate, prepare, understand results.
Higher Rate of Visual Processing Difficulties
In addition to a higher risk of hearing loss, children diagnosed with autism also have a higher rate of visual processing difficulties when compared to other neurodevelopmental disorders.
Cheri uses fun observation activities to screen for visual processing difficulties in the comfort of your home or during an in-office session.
Bone Anomaly Found in the Inner Ear’s Vestibular System. which then negatively impacts development of depth perception.
Amazingly, researchers found a bone anomaly in participants’ inner ear vestibular canals called “superior semicircular canal dehiscence syndrome (SSCD)” in 29% out of 14 participants with a diagnosis of autism and hypersensitivity to sound. Sadly, this can cause a hearing loss due to disruption of sound energy to inner ear hair cells. (Thabet, EM., Zaghloul, HS., (2013).
Auditory profile and high-resolution CT scan in autism spectrum disorders children with auditory hypersensitivity. European Arch Otorhinolaryngology. doi: 10.1007/s00405-013-2482-4. Epub2013 Apr 12)
In the ear diagram, numbers 13 and 15 labels the vestibular system.
Annabel Stehli’s Story and Books of Testimonies Sharing Benefits of Auditory Integration Training
Annabel Stehli moved with her daughter to France to receive Berard Auditory Training from Dr. Berard. Later, Annabel Stehli invited Dr. Berard to come to the United States. I am forever grateful for her work and efforts to have Berard Auditory Integration Training approved for educational intervention by the FDA. Today, advancement continues in the field of auditory integration training.
Although stories are of indivuals with autism benefitting from Berard Auditory Integration Training, they are a source of great encouragement for all parents of children with neurodevelopmental disabilites. Because, sound intolerance frequently occurs in individuals with a neurodevelopmental disability.
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