Ghianina s Flyer for Recruitment
I am writing to invite you to participate in a project looking to understand the siblings’ experiences and perspectives in children with Autism.
Siblings spend most of their daily activities together since the parents or caregivers cannot be available at any time due to work or other responsibilities. Children probably share most of their first social and emotional experiences with their siblings, for example, conflicts, prosocial behaviours, sympathy, appreciation, and so on, just to name a few. Recent studies have been focusing on the effect of siblings’ relationships with autistic children to the siblings’ experiences. However, it is also important to see it from the perception of the autistic children in regards to the presence of siblings throughout their development.
The project will specifically study these understandings through a face-to-face semi structured interview. This will focus more on their personal experience with their brother or sister.
Long term care
If you are interested, I would like to have access to names and contacts of families that might be interested and willing to participate in this study. I would also ask for you to extend this invitation to families along with the parental letter that I have attached in this e-mail.
I appreciate that this is a considerable nuisance and I am happy to discuss ways that I can contribute to the school whether through this project or else. Direct benefits of this research would be to have extensive understanding on the ways children with ASD think and feel with the presence of their siblings in their day-to-day activities in which might lead to certain interventions that could improve certain aspects in the children development.
Finally, I can guarantee the confidentiality of all data collected, the project has acquired ethical approval and I have obtained an enhanced DBS check. Please contact me if you have further questions or concerns about the project, I can be reached through my phone in 07930880528 or my email ghianina.armand.17@ucl.ac.uk. I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Ghianina Armand, MSc in Child Development at UCL Institute of Education May 2018
Poppy Arabella Clarke