We have recently been contacted by Priya Summan at student at University of East London who is conducting some valuable research with parents of children with autism.  It would be great if you would consider taking part!

Summan shares “My name is Priya Summan and I am a 26 year old  final year student at the University of East London. For the past four years,  I have been studying my undergraduate degree of Early Childhood Studies with Special Educational Need and currently, I am in my final year doing my dissertation. I have a background in early years and special needs and have worked with a lot of children on the autistic spectrum. I became interested in special needs especially autism, is because I have always been intrigued with the way society behaves towards children with autism and how, this has an affect on the child itself and finally, I wanted to learn how children with autism learn and play amongst other children .

My dissertation is based on the emotional impact of parents with a child with autism. I want to know how parents learn to cope with their child’s diagnosis of autism and how, parents feel society behave towards their children. My dissertation is due for submission 6^th of May 2014.

The methods I am using for this dissertation are questionnaires and interviews. If I am able to, then I would like to put up questionnaires where, parents would be able to fill them in and then at the end, provide their contact telephone numbers  then which, I could contact them in regards to a telephone interview to get more in-depth details of parental experiences of having a child with autism .  Please be rest assured, that all information provided for this dissertation, will remain confidential  between my self and the participants who fill out the questionnaires. Amongst the questionnaires, I will also put up consent letters, which parents will need to mark to make sure they understand the basis of the research in question. After the research is completed, you  are more than welcome to ask for a copy of my dissertation and I can provide this without hesitation. After the research is completed, all data collected will be shredded and no data will remain after this.  On  the questionnaire, at the end, it will say patient signature where I will only want parents to put ‘parent 1’ ‘parent 2’ etc so that confidentiality is remained at all times. If parents wish to contact me at any time, parents will be provided with my university email address 0612370@uel.ac.uk on which, parents will be able to contact me at any one time.”

If you have an questions for Ms Summan please either email her or use the comments box below.

UPDATE

The questionnaire and consent form are now ready.  Please can you download here Questionnaire for autism research and here Consent tick sheet for participants in autism research.

Please can you email to Ms Summan once completed at  0612370@uel.ac.uk

Many thanks in advance