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Hello everyone, Just wanted to say a massive thank you to everyone who has already filled out my questionnaire and to let everyone know that I will be taking it down on Tuesday so if anyone else is able to fill it out it would be much appreciated xx

Hello I'm looking into the parent's perspectives for a 2 reasons: 1st- so that I can get information about why a child may have moved school as some children may not know or remember when they were younger 2nd- to reduce bias becuase my in my research so far for this project I have found how some people may adapt their answers therefore skewing the results to either really high self-esteem or really low self-esteem. So I felt the best way around this was to ask parents as they have a slightly more objective view although as you rightly said Sa Skimrande how many teenagers are truly honest with their parents!!!! If I had more time I would ideally love to do a comparison between parents and children and do interviews to compare and use a self esteem questionnaire and ask my own question, however I've only got 6 months really do to this all in Maybe in the furture I'll do more research, but for now I'm doing a study with many limitations so lots of reflection and how I would improve it needed to be included, but I'm really hoping to get some interesting results. I hope that makes some sense, I'm still getting my head around all of it, so if it doesn't feel free to ask me some more questions xx

Hello everyone I hope I'm posting in the right place. I'm a final year Speech and Language Therapy student studying at De Montfort University. I was hoping that some parents would be able to help with my dissertation project on self esteem in Asperger's Syndrome. I'm lookng for some parents of KS4 (14-16yr old) children with Asperger's Syndrome to get the parent's perspective on self-esteem. The survey should only 5-10mins and your help would be so greatly appreciated! I'm on my final push now and finsihing in February and hoping to work with children with Autism and Asperger's Syndrome in the future so this piece of research has been fascinating and so has finding all these forums to beg for parent's participation!! I'm happy to keep you all updated on the results if you would like, and please feel free to private message me if you have any other questions or any suggestions. Here's the link to the survey: http://obsurvey.com/...37-c2ad000d3d91 Thank you all so much Huda xx P.S. Here's my information sheet for little bit more info and my contact details if you need them (sorry I don't know how to add an attachment): Information Sheet Who is/are the researcher(s)? This research is being conducted by a student at De Montfort University studying Speech and Language Therapy and is being supervised by Olivia Brown a lecturer at the university and qualified Speech and Language Therapist. Where can they be contacted? Huda Taher (the student) can be contacted through email at P09292649@dmu.ac.uk and Olivia Brown can be contacted through the address Division of Speech and Language Therapy, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Hawthorn Building, The Gateway, Leicester, LE1 9BH, UK What is the research study about? This research is investigating self perception in adolescents Asperger Syndrome (AS) in relation to mainstream and Special school. What will the participants have to do and how long will it take? As a participants you will have a questionnaire to fill out that will take 5-10 minutes to complete. What does the researcher expect the major outcomes from the research will be (e.g. publications, dissertations)? This research is part of the researchers’ dissertation for her undergraduate degree in Speech and Language Therapy. What will happen to the information collected? All information gathered will be collected anonymously and will only be seen by the researcher and supervisor and be kept in a safe and secure place. After the dissertation has been completed all the data collected will be destroyed. What degrees and kinds of confidentiality and anonymity will be required for this research? The data all collected anonymously, so anonymity will be maintained throughout the process. Participants will only be identified by a number. There is also full confidentiality as the questionnaire does not ask for information that could identify a participant. All participants have the right to withdraw at any time throughout the process and can feel free to contact Huda Taher or Olivia Brown at any time for more information or to withdraw from the study. Contact details Huda Taher: P09292649@dmu.ac.uk Olivia Brown: Olivia Brown Division of Speech and Language Therapy, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences Hawthorn Building The Gateway Leicester LE1 9BH UK