Hello friends! Glad to see you all back! And to all the 9th and 10th graders following my blog, I hope you had a wonderful break. Feel free to talk about under the comments below! No seriously, I get bored sometimes.....anyways, let's get back to my Senior Research Project.
The first day has been quite similar to my intense Thursday last week. Completing those Early Intervention files is no joke, and I had to finish those before the week ended, so that Chris (my on-site mentor) had that information ready to better help the clients coming in in the future. Through this long tedious process of entering all the information, I learned a little more about different programs that parents enrolled their children. The checklist indicated different aspects of what needed to be worked on and if the child was getting any treatment or help in that specific area of growth and development. Like if there was a child who was taking Speech Therapy, the parents would indicate in the checklist what programs they attended, the amount of time attended, and a rate of how successful the treatment was. This is especially helpful as a reference for other parents to see what kind of programs that they can enroll their own children in, giving SARRC the necessary resources to assist the clients.
One example of a program for helping children with autism was called Dynamite Therapy.
Here is a link to their website: https://www.dynamitetherapy.com
This specific therapy program assist in many different aspects of development within children, like Physical Therapy, Speech Therapy, Developmental Special Education, etc. It's a great place to help further develop a child's physical and mental growth if they're struggling or if they do have autism.
Last thing I wanted to talk about was a meeting I attended for a research paper that SARRC has been doing for a while now. It's part of the GetSet Early Model which aims to provide evidence for the benefits of Early Intervention and monitoring of a child to better seek proper treatment. We sat in a call from UC San Diego (because SARRC partnered with them) and talked about a few details about the paper, like how the CSBS forms have been going and certain data concerning if we have enough clients to have an accurate sample size. Though I felt irrelevant during the whole meeting, Dr. Smith reassured me that my help was valuable to the completion of the study because all the forms needed to be implemented into a document to be sent in the future (so not completely useless, yay!!). Additionally, we talked a bit of Stephen's research (one of the researchers at the facility that watches over me) and it's progress. He wanted to see if there were any initial differences between males and females scores on the CSBS forms, which I found really fascinating and at the same time overwhelming.
I covered most of the week, but I feel like there is a lot more to do in the future. I will prepare myself for the work ahead (ahh!). Thanks again for coming over to my blog! See you next week. Bye!
