Participate in the AASPIRE Gateway Project

You are invited to participate in a continuing online research project called the AASPIRE Gateway Project. This online research project is conducted by the Academic Autistic Spectrum Partnership in Research and Education (AASPIRE, http://aaspireproject.org) in collaboration with Oregon Health & Science University, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Portland State University, and the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network.

The AASPIRE Gateway Project is recruiting participants with and without disabilities, and participants on the autism spectrum, for a series of continuing online studies on topics such as health care, Internet use, online sense of community, identity, problem solving, and perspective taking. The goals of the online AASPIRE Gateway Project are

(1) to collect the Gateway Survey data;
(2) to use the Gateway Survey data to invite eligible participants to AASPIRE’s continuing online research studies; and
(3) to use the Gateway Survey data in AASPIRE’s continuing online research studies.

You may participate in the AASPIRE Gateway Project and contribute to continuing AASPIRE research studies if you are at least 18 years old, and you have access to the Internet.

The first step in joining the AASPIRE Gateway Project is completing the online AASPIRE Gateway Survey. The AASPIRE Gateway Survey asks about (a) personal information, such as age, gender, disability, education, and employment status, (b) information about which hand you prefer to use when doing activities such as writing with a pen or pencil, and (c) information about your personal preferences regarding interests, habits, and social interactions. Completing the AASPIRE Gateway Survey will take approximately 20-40 minutes. In return, you may choose to be entered into a drawing for a 1 in 25 chance to win a $25 gift certificate to Amazon.com or to receive 1 extra credit point in your introductory psychology class if you are a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Adults who identify as having a disability and adults who identify as being on the autistic spectrum are especially encouraged to participate in the AASPIRE Gateway Project.

If you're interested in participating in the AASPIRE Gateway Project, or would like to learn more about AASPIRE or the study, here are three ways you can get started:

1) Go to the study’s website at www.aaspire.org/gateway.
2) Send an email to info@aaspireproject.org.
3) Make a telephone call to Christina Nicolaidis, MD, MPH, at (503) 494-9602 or Morton Ann Gernsbacher, PhD, at (608) 262-6989.



OHSU IRB # 3762; UW IRB# SE-2008-0749
Principal Investigators: Christina Nicolaidis, MD, MPH, Oregon Health & Science University
Morton Ann Gernsbacher, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Katherine McDonald, PhD, Portland State University
Dora Raymaker, Autistic Self-Advocacy Network

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Hi does anyone here have contacts with PICA (Portland Institute for Contemporary Art)? If so, please contact me directly at intralimina at livejournal dot com or leave a comment.

I'm interested in their capacity / interest for a group visual / music / performance disability rights and autistic culture group exhibition. I know PICA has supported disability theatre and performance in the past.

Thanks.

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I've been thinking very hard about this for over a week and it's been a very difficult decision, but I've come to the conclusion that Privacy by Obscurity is not really an option any more :-)

I have decided to switch the relationship of public to friends-only posts from roughly 95% public / 5% f-only to the inverse of 95% f-only / 5% public. This is because I need an Internet space where I can feel free to make typos, blather about ill-formed ideas, not be nervous that someone is going to leave me OT hate mail in my comments, etc.

So: Everything is going friends only for now, and I'll put some stuff back public over time just so new people can get some idea of what I write about and how I write about it if they are browsing over.

If you're someone who friended me but I never friended you back and you want to keep reading my blog here, leave me a note in the comments and I'll add you.

If you're someone (like my parents) who does not have an LJ account, you'll have to get one to keep reading the majority of my posts. Again, leave a comment and I'll add you.

In time I may go back to my former practice of public-nearly-everything but for a little while at least my private-citizen blog will be a bit less visible.

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