Treatment FADS

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Across
  1. 3. Information obtained through systematic observation, measurement, or experimentation.
  2. 6. Alternative treatment based on unscientific principles whose remedies usually lack active ingredients.
  3. 8. Initial support for fad treatments often provided by parents and practitioners instead of scientific evidence.
  4. 13. Alternative practice claiming physical adjustments can improve neurological functioning.
  5. 14. Evaluation of research by independent experts before publication.
  6. 16. Therapy using increased oxygen pressure that lacks evidence of benefit for ASD.
  7. 17. A treatment’s ability to produce its intended benefit under controlled conditions.
  8. 19. Dangerous ASD treatment promoted to remove heavy metals from the body.
  9. 20. Promises that an intervention can effectively treat many unrelated problems without sufficient supporting evidence.
  10. 21. Discredited method in which a facilitator may unknowingly guide a person’s responses.
  11. 24. Physician whose auditory-stimulation method influenced the development of AIT.
  12. 27. Clinical decision-making guided by credible research, professional expertise, and patient needs.
  13. 30. Field with a long history of unproven or fad treatments.
  14. 32. Abbreviation for a therapy using filtered and amplitude-modulated sounds to reduce auditory distortion.
  15. 33. Describes an audience that may be especially susceptible to unsupported treatment claims.
  16. 34. Bias produced by a researcher’s expectations influencing the participant or results.
Down
  1. 1. Excessive sensitivity to sound that AIT claims to reduce through auditory training.
  2. 2. Established body of accepted knowledge from which fad treatments commonly differ.
  3. 4. Whether a treatment initially appears logical or reasonable based on existing knowledge.
  4. 5. Changes in a condition that would have occurred without treatment.
  5. 7. Improvement associated with a procedure rather than its specific therapeutic properties.
  6. 8. A nonspecific effect in which a patient’s beliefs influence how treatment outcomes are perceived.
  7. 9. How speech or music is altered during Auditory Integration Therapy.
  8. 10. Physician who studied with Tomatis and later developed Auditory Integration Therapy.
  9. 11. Unproven therapy claimed to repair or improve brain function in people with ASD.
  10. 12. Natural movement of unusually severe symptoms toward their typical level.
  11. 15. Dietary treatment eliminating gluten and casein despite no evidence of widespread ASD benefit.
  12. 18. Behavioral change caused by knowing one is participating in a new treatment or experiment.
  13. 22. Normal test-retest differences that can explain changes of approximately 5–10 dB.
  14. 23. Unregulated products promoted to improve behavior or cognition that may interact with medications.
  15. 25. Evidence based primarily on personal stories rather than controlled research.
  16. 26. A treatment that rapidly becomes popular despite lacking strong scientific support.
  17. 28. Hearing test used by AIT practitioners to identify adjacent threshold differences.
  18. 29. Harmful outcomes that should be evaluated before recommending an intervention.
  19. 31. A sound characteristic that is modulated during AIT treatment.