Survey for Parents of Children with ASD

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Please follow the link below to direct

you to the survey. The survey should take no longer than 15 minutes to

complete. Below the link is information pertaining to your

participation in the study if you choose to do so. We thank you in

advance for your time.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Q6ZMXPX

Dear Research Participant:

Your

participation in a research project is requested. The title of the study

is Educational Placement and Service Preferences of Parents of Students with

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). The research is being conducted by

Tritschler, a doctoral student in the Education Department at Barry University,

and is seeking information that will be useful in the field of special

education. The aims of the research are to investigate the type of

educational placement and services preferred by parents of students with

ASD. In accordance with these aims, the following procedure will be

used: A questionnaire called the Educational Placement and Service Preferences

by Parents of Children with ASD Inventory, which follows this letter, will be

completed by parents of students with ASD. I anticipate the number of

participants to be 300.

If you decide to

participate in this research, you will be asked to do the following:

Answer the questions on the parental survey by following the link to the Survey

Monkey. The questionnaire is estimated to take no more than 15 minutes to

complete.

Your

consent to be a research participant is strictly voluntary and should you decline

to participate or should you choose to drop out at any time during the study,

there will be no adverse effects. Upon completion of the survey, Survey

Monkey will ask your permission to enter your email address into a drawing for

one $50 gift card to Amazon.com. Your email will remain anonymous to the

researcher if you choose to participate in the drawing.

There are no

risks involved in your participation of this study. The following

procedures will be used to minimize these risks: You can skip any questions you

do not want to answer. There are no direct benefits to you for

participating in this study; however, your participation will contribute to

research in the area of autism and special education. All data collected

will be destroyed after five years (2016).

As a research

participant, information you provide is anonymous, that is, no names or

other identifiers will be collected.

SurveyMonkey.com allows researchers to suppress the delivery of IP addresses

during the downloading of data, and in this study no IP address will be

delivered to the researcher. However, SurveyMonkey.com does collect IP

addresses for its own purposes. If you have concerns about this, you

should review the privacy policy of SurveyMonkey.com before you begin.

By completing

and submitting this electronic survey you are acknowledging that you are at

least 18-years-old and that you voluntarily agree to participate in the study.

If you have any

questions or concerns regarding the study or your participation in the study,

you may contact me, Tritschler, by phone at or by email at lisa.tritschler@.... You may also contact the Institutional

Review Board point of contact, Barbara Cook, by phone at .

Thank you for your participation.

Sincerely,

Tritschler