survey for PDD siblings

september 29 2007

My name is Keri Anne Israelski, I am a doctorate student at the
Chicago School of Professional Psychology. In previous years I have
worked as a home-based Verbal Behavior therapist for children with
autism. As I was working in homes and getting to know the families,
the effect the child's disability had on the siblings became an issue
of interest to me. As a result, I chose to do my doctoral
dissertation on the coping processes employed by siblings of people
diagnosed with pervasive developmental disabilities (PDD). This
category includes the diagnoses of : Rett's Disorder, Aspergers
Disorder, Autistic Disorder, Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, and/or
PDD NOS. Having a PDD is also referred to as being on the autism
spectrum.

If you are a sibling of a person that fits the above criteria and are
21 years of age or over I would greatly appreciate it if you could
take the time to complete my survey. The first 25 respondents will
recieve a visa gift card for $20. After you have completed the survey
please email me at Ker1227@aol. com or K.Israelski@ yahoo.com with your
name and address and I will send out the visa gift card. The survey
consists of a few demographic questions, the Ways of Coping
Questionnaire by Folkman and Lazarus, as well as few qualitative
questions at the conclusion of the survey. It should take
approximately 20-30 minutes. The results from this survey will
provide information about the coping processes of siblings of people
diagnosed with PDD. Others working with siblings to help them explore
their coping resources can use these results in the future. Thank you
for taking the time to read this and if you have a minute and would
like to earn some extra money please take pity on a desperate doctoral
student and take a look at the survey, thanks : )

Just click on the link or cut and paste into your browser.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=zXQC2UJg16yhRk296JFWcg_3d_3d