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RE: 2005 EIBI Survey-

This is becoming an annual survey of home behavioral programs.

I would appreciate it if you could share this information with behavior

analysts or families doing home programs that you may know. For families,

please consider completing the survey.

If you have any other contacts that could help share this I would be

grateful if you can do so. This survey in now done only as an online

version.

Thanks

Jack

Survey at http://www.coe.fau.edu/card/EIBI2005.asp

May 1, 2005

Dear Parents of Children with Autism and Behavioral Professionals,

We are trying to obtain replies to a survey on home-based,

early, intensive behavioral intervention (EIBI) for children with autism and

closely related conditions. This survey is part of a continuing effort to

obtain and share information on parent home programming. We hope that you

could help.

Some of you may have used information I wrote about recruiting

teaching assistants in one chapter of Maurice¹s 1996 book,

Behavioral Intervention for Young Children with Autism: A Manual for parents

and Professionals. This survey is part of a series of surveys that first

examined the role played by teaching assistants. It has evolved to become

more comprehensive. If you are a parent now conducting EIBI, then we hope

you would go to the internet site for this survey and complete the survey.

The on-line survey takes about 30 minutes to complete. You will find the

survey at:

http://www.coe.fau.edu/card/EIBI2005.asp

If you are an early intervention provider or behavior analyst or

autism specialist and work with families who home EIBI programs we would

hope that you could share this information with the families. Unlike past

years, this survey is now only available in an on-line version. Sharing the

information is as simple as sharing the web address. While we anticipate

most responses will come form the USA, we welcome replies from any country.

For replies from outside the USA, please be sure to enter monetary values in

your own currency and to indicate your country.

The purpose of the survey is to gain an understanding of the

nature and scope of EIBI home programs. We have conducted previous studies

and reported them at the Association for Behavior Analysis Annual Convention

in 2004, 2003 and at other forums. We would be happy to send an electronic

copy of our findings from this 2005 Survey when it is completed (end of

summer 2005). To receive a copy, simply provide an email address once you

have completed the survey. The email addresses go to a separate data system

and, to help maintain confidentiality, they are not linked to the survey

responses. You do not need to complete the survey to request a copy of the

findings. We are also conducting follow-up telephone interviews with

parents from different geographic regions and with different profiles. If

you are interested in being considered for participation in these follow up

interviews please provide your name and contact information. The

opportunity to enter this information appears right after you hit the submit

button for entering the survey. Again this information is kept separate

from the survey data.

If you have comments or questions on the survey we welcome them

at jscott@... <mailto:jscott@...> or by phone at 561 297 3239.

Thanks for your help with this survey effort and for helping to bring the

benefits of early intensive behavioral intervention to children with autism.

Sincerely,

Jack , PhD, BCBA

Associate Professor