- Our IRB Strategy
Our team has been working over the last several weeks to prepare to begin the writing of our IRB as it goes hand in hand with our research. Our team has delegated tasks into smaller teams and individuals while keeping some tasks as a group initiative. Below is our bulleted breakdown.
Person Responsible | Task |
Everyone |
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Dr. Morin |
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Alyssa |
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Kathleen |
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Emily |
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Grace |
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Lindsey |
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- Develop an outline for your mid-semester presentations. What supporting evidence will you provide for each point? How will you boost your credibility every step of the way?
We have continued to delegate our tasks for the presentation so that we can work effectively. We plan to only have 2 people from our team present during the 5 minutes and then the rest of us will help answer questions during the Q&A. Our main presenters during the 5 minute portion of our presentation will be Emily and Grace.
- Logo
- Goal: All children in Sierra Leone screened by the age of 4
- Macro:
- Amount of research done in US/western worlds
- Part of the literature and needs section of the presentation
- Level of knowledge about autism in general community (if we can find literature that speaks to this)
- In comparison, research in sub-saharan africa and specifically Sierra Leone
- Lack of available culturally appropriate screeners/diagnostic tools
- Amount of research done in US/western worlds
- Mirco:
- How does this impact the children and families?
- Cultural beliefs of causes of autism
- Shunning
- Giving the child back to god
- Possible loss of income
- Evidence of people wanting our help
- Sierra Leone Autistic Society
- Dedicated to outreach → AAC device donation
- Psychiatrists and teachers asking for help when Dr. Morin visited in January
- We plan to talk about how our project is credible because of the support of the Sierra Leone Autistic Society and the other schools who have already written letters of support for us, along with helping us to review our screener and questions.
- We didn’t inherit anything as this is a new project so we will not have to address this portion.
- We will discuss our approach and mixed methods approach to complete our project
- We will make sure to emphasize our approach for making a systemic change rather than simply introducing our product and leaving things there – incl. plans to train both community health workers, religious leaders, and ordinary citizens
- We will address our competition/ challenges by explaining cultural beliefs and divides, and how they can cause disturbances along the path towards realizing our goal
- We will compile work we have done throughout the semester across various topics, in order to support our project’s progress