Maximum Output Intensity of the Audiokinetron

1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 68-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine M. Rankovic ◽  
William M. Rabinowitz ◽  
Gregory L. Lof
Keyword(s):  
Developmental Disabilities ◽  
Maximum Output ◽  
Output Intensity ◽  
Safety Studies ◽  
Auditory Integration Training ◽  
Auditory Integration

The Audiokinetron is a device that processes music for earphone presentation to patients undergoing auditory integration training, a treatment for individuals with autism and other developmental disabilities. Intensity levels produced by the Audiokinetron were measured under realistic listening conditions with a KEMAR manikin substituted for a patient. Average levels at the eardrum were 110 dB SPL when the device was adjusted to the highest setting employed by a local, trained AIT practitioner and 118 dB SPL at the maximum setting of the device. These levels are potentially harmful to hearing and warrant further safety studies of AIT instruments and protocols.

Commitment to Theory

1994 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 30-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandy Friel-Patti
Keyword(s):  
Treatment Efficacy ◽  
Professional Community ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Objective Data ◽  
Auditory Integration Training ◽  
Peer Reviewers ◽  
Auditory Integration ◽  
Professional Review

In summary, authors Rimland, Edelson, and Veale are to be commended for bringing the topic of auditory integration training forward for professional review and debate. AIT offers an excellent forum for consideration of the role of theory in intervention for clinicians engaged in treatment of persons with communication disorders. Each clinician must take a step back on occasion and face the question about treatment efficacy from an objective, data-driven perspective. Such public discussion of AIT as intervention inevitably leads to reexamination of what is meant by success/failure in treatment; indeed, what constitutes intervention itself. AIT is being held up to the scrutiny of both the clinical and research communities, and, if it is valid, it will withstand such inquiry and will even advance our understanding of some very perplexing disorders. In order for that to happen, responsible researchers and clinicians must be willing to shed biases, ask questions, conduct studies, and report them to their professional community of peer reviewers. The process is vital for every speech, language, and hearing professional and for the persons with communication disorders they serve.

Auditory Integration Training

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice Miller ◽  
Jay Lucker
Keyword(s):  
Auditory Integration Training ◽  
Auditory Integration

Auditory Integration Training in Children with Autism

Autism ◽  
1997 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Gillberg ◽  
Maria Johansson ◽  
Suzanne Steffenburg ◽  
Orjan Berlin
Keyword(s):  
Children With Autism ◽  
Auditory Integration Training ◽  
Auditory Integration
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