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Gathering Feedback on a Vaccination Social Story to Help Autistic Children and Their Caregivers

Project end date: May 30, 2025

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The Pediatric Pain, Health and Communication Lab (run by Dr. Meghan McMurtry) at the University of Guelph is currently recruiting participants for our research project: “Gathering Feedback on a Vaccination Social Story to Help Autistic Children and Their Caregivers.”

We are looking to gain feedback from:

  1. Autistic youth (ages 7-18 years) and their caregivers (18+)
  2. Professionals who work with autistic youth (e.g., occupational therapists)
  3. Professionals who give vaccinations (e.g., nurses).

Participating would involve a screening phone call, the option to review our Social Story about vaccination before an interview (if desired), and then attending either an ~hour long virtual interview (for child-caregiver pairs) or focus group (for professionals) in which the Social Story is reviewed and then questions are asked about it (e.g., what do you like or dislike?).

Interested individuals can contact Olivia Dobson, the Graduate Student conducting the study, via email at [email protected]

https://pphc.uoguelph.ca/current-opportunities/

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