Great Outcomes for Kids Impacted by Severe Developmental Disabilities (GO4KIDDS) is seeking parents/caregivers of Canadian children and youth aged 10 to 16 years with severe developmental disabilities to participate in an anonymous survey. The survey is intended to identify needs and access to healthcare and other services.

GO4KIDDS is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the Bright Futures for Children with Disabilities initiative.

The GO4KIDDS Health Care and Service System Utilization Survey includes 3 parts, each taking approximately 30-60 minutes to complete. The 3 parts can be completed at different times. Participants will be eligible to receive an honorarium of $50.00 after completing all 3 parts of the survey. The survey asks questions about parents/caregivers and family, the child’s behaviour, disability and services received or required, and feelings about the rewarding and challenging aspects of parenting a child with disabilities.

For more information, please visit http://www.go4kidds.ca
The survey can be found at http://www.surveymk.com/s/gohealth1

Researchers at the University of Victoria are interested in examining the different ways that parental caregivers of adult children (i.e., 19 years of age and older) with intellectual disabilities (i.e., significant limitations both in intellectual functioning and in adaptive behaviours, which extends to a variety of social and practical skills) plan for the future of their children.  If you are the parent of an adult child with an intellectual disability, you are eligible to participate.

The information obtained through this research could aid in developing methods for better assisting and supporting parental caregivers as they face the challenging task of planning for the future of their loved ones.

Participation in this research involves completing a brief electronic questionnaire. In addition, if agreed to, there is the possibility that participants will be contacted at a later date for a follow-up audio-recorded phone interview. Participants are under no obligation to agree to follow-up contact.

If you are interested in participating or have further questions, please contact Megan at cainesm@uvic.ca or 250-858-5836.

Thank you for considering this research project!

The goal of this study is to inform archivists about potential accessibility and usability barriers present on archival websites, and educate them on how to improve websites for all viewers. As well, this study will compare the experiences of users with disabilities to those from users without disabilities, in order to chart whether there are similarities or differences in the barriers found.

Volunteers may live anywhere in the world, have any level of computer/internet experience and don’t need any experience using an archives. The study is seeking people with visual disabilities (including blind, low vision, colour blind, etc.), physical disabilities (includes those who have limited or no use of arms or hands, etc.), cognitive/neurological/learning disabilities (includes those with dyslexia, ADD, ADHD, etc.), auditory disabilities (deaf and hard of hearing) and/or multiple disabilities.

More information about the study and contact information: http://www.lisasnider.ca/content/volunteers-needed-archival-website-research-study

Contact Lisa Snider, the Co-Investigator of the research study, at lsnider@interchange.ubc.ca or at (604) 347-5913