Auditory integration training, a specific auditory sensory intervention, was applied to two autistic children. The results of the procedure were associated with improvements in balance, arousal and sensory modulation, speech and language, sequencing, eye control and attention. A number of hypotheses are given that may help to explain the effect of the process.
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