Treatment Fads

3. The doctor who developed the method of auditory stimulation from which AIT originally evolved.
5. This expensive oxygen therapy for ASD has no evidence of benefit and can cause side effects.
6. An expensive therapy claiming to "repair" brain function, though it lacks scientific evidence and is potentially harmful.
7. A treatment characterized by an initial burst of popularity supported by enthusiasm rather than empirical evidence.
9. The doctor who developed Auditory Integration Therapy (AIT) based on the premise of reducing hypersensitivity.
10. Any effect on a disease attributable to a pill or procedure that lacks specific pharmacodynamic properties.
11. A treatment based on unscientific principles; most of its remedies contain no active ingredients.
14. It is considered ____ to make clinical claims that cannot be substantiated.
15. Fad treatments often rely on this type of "evidence" from parents rather than rigorous statistical evaluation.

1. The "____ to the mean" phenomenon occurs when chronic symptoms naturally fluctuate back toward a patient's average.
2. The effect where people change their behavior simply because they know they are participating in a novel experiment.
4. A discredited communication method for ASD where a prompt or "helper" often accidentally guides the user's response.
8. AIT practitioners incorrectly use 5-10 dB threshold variations between these types of frequencies as evidence of "distorted" hearing,.
12. Fad treatments are generally publicized in journals that lack this independent expert check.
13. A dangerous fad treatment for ASD intended to remove heavy metals from the body; it has led to patient deaths.