This guest blog comes from the keyboard of Felicity Sedgewick, a PhD student at UCL Institute of Education, based at CRAE (Centre for Research in Autism and Education). I invited Felicity to write the post after supporting her recruitment of participants by sharing her study website on twitter. This sparked a debate which extends beyond her specific research topic…
This is just a note to introduce a guest post from a colleague looking for participants for her research. Please read and share with your networks. Thanks! During our childhood we learn to recognise the emotions we feel. As babies, we begin to learn basic emotions such as happiness through our carer’s facial and vocal…
Parents of children with autism, and autistic people, often share their frustration with the claims of so-called ‘experts’. I suppose I am one of these people – an ‘autism professional’ – who purports to have some kind of insight into autism.
Regular readers will have seen that we have recently closed recruitment for the Click-East project, which is the study for which this website was set up.
The period in which we can recruit new families into the Click-East trial is coming to an end in January 2013 so my big priority right now is to see as many families as I possibly can.
Our amendments to the ethics approval have been considered and signed off, the assessment room is ready to go, I’ve done a practice run with my own daughter and a friend’s son, and the app is nigh on finished. So there’s nothing in the way anymore, and recruitment for our clinical trial has officially begun. …