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An Unexpected Journey

A research program using SketchUp to facilitate social, creative, and job skills in children on the autism spectrum . An Unexpected Journey. Overview of the Journey PAR (Participatory Action Research) Family members as advisors and co-researchers. Steve Gross as SketchUp Mentor.

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An Unexpected Journey

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  1. A research program using SketchUp to facilitate social, creative, and job skills in children on the autism spectrum

  2. An Unexpected Journey • Overview of the Journey • PAR (Participatory Action Research) • Family members as advisors and co-researchers

  3. Steve Gross as SketchUp Mentor • Using SketchUp to design theme parks • Connecting to iSTAR program

  4. Grandparents

  5. Support • Emotional • Social • Functional

  6. Interaction • With grandchildren around technology • With other grandparents comforting and inspiring

  7. iSTAR Gives Them Hope

  8. Mothers (parents)

  9. Future Supports • A Vision for the Future • “watching them do a good job puts us at ease for the future..what is coming up in their lives” • Skills for jobs • “Okay, so you’re not going to fling hamburgers for the rest of your life” • Sense of accomplishment • Serendipitous Outcome • Friendships

  10. Family Support • Relief • Not another failure • “We come to this [program]. . . know[ing] it is a safe place. . . . We’re going to be happy, and he’s going to be happy. We walk away and take this feeling home with us.” • Less Tension • At home, siblings

  11. Parental Supports • Sharing with Other Parents • “We’re kind of a group of parents who’ve been thrust to figure out a problem nobody else has had before.” • Success • Children relating to others as “people” not characters in a movie or a story. • Acceptance • Sustaining iSTAR Program • Lifeline for them and their children

  12. Youth

  13. Benefits to Youth • SketchUp Skills

  14. Benefits to Youth • True Success • “Everyone’s smart enough to understand when you’re getting a real compliment…. He wants someone to recognize the things he’s really good at.”

  15. Observational Data from Workshops • Authentic Relationships

  16. Observational Data from Workshops • Peer Mentors • Boys provide input • Peers model new techniques • Competition and conflict • Adult Mentors • Provide humor • Scaffold peers helping • Model fixing mistakes • Show new tools • Provide specific praise

  17. Class Presentations

  18. Positive Outcomes • Leadership Skills • Flexibility • Enhanced Peer Status • Self-Confidence

  19. Leadership Skills

  20. Flexibility

  21. Enhanced Peer Status

  22. Self-Confidence

  23. Sibling Involvement

  24. iSTAR UPDATES

  25. Conferences • National Conferences • National Association for the Education of Young People • National Council on Family Relations • Research Conference of the Society for the Study of Occupation • International • International Association for the Scientific Study of Intellectual Disability (submitted)

  26. Grants • Funded • University of Utah Interdisciplinary Research Grant ($12,000) • University of Utah Undergraduate Student Award (UROP) ($1800) • Submitted/Pending • Autism Speaks (Submitted) • Google Research Grant (Submitted) • MacArthur Foundation (to be submitted Nov. 2011) • NIH Psychosocial/Behavioral Interventions and Services Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders (R34) (to be submitted Feb. 2012)

  27. Manuscripts • Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal • Special Issue: Influence of technology on individuals and families (in press Dec. 2011) • Autism Journal • Process Participatory Action Research paper (in preparation) • Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities or an Autism Journal • Special Issue: Empirically supported psychosocial interventions (in preparation) • International Journal of Human Development and Aging • Grandparents and their Grandchildren with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD): Strengthening Relationships through Technology Activities (in preparation) • Autism journal • Lessons Learned (in preparation)

  28. Impact and Future Directions • Expansion of workshops to multiple sites (Salt Lake School District) • Trainthe trainer & peer trainers • Development of a Virtual Community • Applications for classrooms

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