FW: Looking for research participants! - Lubbock

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From: Voland, Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2012 9:31 AMTo: Undisclosed recipients:Subject: Looking for research participants! Dear Parents, Ms. Layla Abby and Professor Richman from the Burkhart Center are conducting a study to determine when young children with and without autism from 2-6 years old develop skills related to knowing when someone is (a) happy, ( sad, © scared, or (d) angry by just looking at a person’s facial expression. The long-term goal is to learn when these skills typically develop in young children with and without autism and then to develop ways to teach young children with autism how “read facial expressions” as well as their same-aged peers. Briefly, the study will involve bringing your child to the College of Education at Texas Tech or allowing research assistants to come to your home or your child’s early childhood center, and we will show your child a series of digital pictures of actors’ faces and ask your child how the person in the picture feels. The digital pictures will be shown on a laptop computer one at a time and the entire study should take approximately 30-45 minutes – including about 10 minutes to assess your child’s language skills with the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, so we can match the children with and without autism on their language abilities. We are also going to conduct the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers and the Childhood Autism Rating Scale – Second Edition to evaluate your child’s skills and symptoms of autism. If you have any questions about the study please contact Ms. Abby or Professor Richman (see below). If you are willing to allow your child (2-6 years old) to participate please contact Ms. Abby. Kind Regards, Richman and Layla Abby M. Richman, Ph.D., BCBA-D Layla Abby, M.S.Jere Lynn Burkhart Professor and Chair Doctoral student & Research assistant3008 18th Street, Room 113 (TTU Mailstop 1071) 3008 18th street, room 217d.richman@... layla.abby@... (Ext. 307) www.burkhartcenter.org