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