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