Drew Rubick, Lexi Fisher, Sarah Ridenour, Adam

Wadley
http://autism-slad.weebly.com/
Evaluation Plan... Overall Goal
Help parents of autistic children improve their child's life.

Provide suggestions that when used will help improve problems in the child's life
due to autism.
Study Design
Cohort
Follow the families over the course of 12 months to see if the suggestions on the website
benefited their child.

As soon as they are exposed to the website we will survey them and continue to for the months
following.

There is a large sample size of 500 since the study is long and loss to follow up is a risk.
Participant Recruitment Plan
Choose 500 willing families that have an autistic child to view
the website.
The family must have only one child.
Their child must be between the age of 5 and 10.
The child cannot be currently receiving any forms of
treatment.
Introduce them to our website and have them read through
Inclusion Families that only have
Criteria one child
Autistic children ages 5-10
Participants that arent
already on another
treatment plan
Exclusion
Families that have more
Criteria than one child
Participants outside of
ages 5-10
Participants that are
already on another
treatment plan
 1) (Directly after viewing the website)
After touring the website would you

Survey
implement any of these suggestions
into your child's life? Yes or No
2) Was the website easy to navigate

Questions
If the participant responded yes the first month
we would continue to ask if the ideas on our
website improved their childs symptoms of
autism.
through and obtain information from?
Yes or No
3) (Follow up question a month later)
Have you started implementing any
of the suggestions in your childs
life? Yes or No
4) If you replied no to the previous
question what are your reasons?
Requires a written response
5) If you answered yes to question 2
what were the effects of the
suggestions positive? Choose from:
Strongly Disagree, Disagree,
Neutral, Agree, Strongly Agree
6) What specific suggestions from the
website did you implement into your
childs life? Check all that apply:
Eating habits, therapy, and folinic
acid supplements
 Obtaining Data

Quantitative Data Qualitative Data

Number of people who If the child had any
responded yes and improvement with their
are going to continue to symptoms. (ex. speech)
use the website as a If the family thought the
treatment plan for their website was easy to
child. navigate through.
What treatment plan the
Number of people who said child used?
no after viewing the
website and are not
going to use the
website as a guideline
treatment plan for their
child.
 Analyze the responses from the survey

Descriptive Analysis Evaluate the effects the website had on

the family and their child.
Plan With the results we will be able to refine
the website
Take out treatment plans that were
not beneficial.
Revise plans to be more clear or
with better instruction.

If none of the treatments were found to be

beneficial then we would continue to research
new ideas and repeat the study until we found a
plan that was effective.
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