At such times, it is helpful to be at hand to reassure parents that all is well. AIT is also more cost-effective for the client, being completed in just ten days. Although some of the home-based programmes are widely available, their use should still be carefully monitored by a professional sound therapist, since they are all potentially powerful interventions designed for therapeutic listening through headphones, and should not be considered as simply for casual relaxation and entertainment. Certainly sound therapies are not a universal panacea for all the conditions listed in Table 2 and specifically not recommended for schizophrenic individuals. Improvement depends upon the degree that the auditory system is contributory to the difficulty.
Many clients start to overcome learning and behavioural difficulties.
For the non-verbal client with an autistic spectrum disorder, eye contact may improve or a gradual or even rapid speech development. Those with depression change their outlook on life and feel more comfortable with their lives. The previously suicidal wonder what the problem was. The nightmare of tinnitus may in some cases reduce or even disappear. As mentioned above, some find as a by-product that the sound therapy has unexpectedly helped with other difficulties.