ACORN

The ACORN study is no longer recruiting participants. Thank you to all of the families who participated in this study!

ACORN is a remote study that aims to investigate the skills and experiences that children with autism have with reading, letters, and numbers. This study particularly seeks to understand the literacy and numeracy in children who have difficulties with spoken language in order to be able to better support their learning and communication.

Who can participate?

• Children (5 – 8 years old) with a diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder and limited spoken language and their parent/guardian who speaks and reads English fluently enough to participate in interviews about their child.

What does participation involve?

Over the course of 3 – 4 study sessions over Zoom…

• You will participate in 2 interviews with a member of our team, one about your child’s general communication and behaviors (60-90 min) and one about your child’s knowledge and experiences with reading, letters, and numbers (30-60 min)
• You and your child will interact using 2 books (15 min)
• Your child will participate in a letter/number activity with a member of our team (15 min)
• You will complete a series of questionnaires about your child

What will we receive for participating?

• $75 in the form of Amazon gift cards
• 1 book that we will send to you for use in a study task