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

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Project end date: February 1, 2026

This study is being run by Olivia Dobson (Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student) and her supervisor Dr. C. Meghan McMurtry (Professor), both from the Pediatric Pain, Health, and Communication (PPHC) Lab. We are aiming to obtain feedback from autistic youth and their caregivers on a Social Story that we created about the vaccination process. The goal of the Social Story is to help families prepare for and cope with vaccination. In part 1, we already obtained feedback from families and professionals and made some changes, so now in part 2, we are looking for more feedback before doing a study on the outcomes of using the Social Story to prepare for a real vaccination.