Student Research Award

 

The Autism SIG sponsors an annual Student Research Poster Competition at the Association for Behavior Analysis Conference. Graduate or undergraduate students who are first authors on autism related posters are invited to submit their posters for consideration. Doctoral level SIG members are recruited each year at the SIG business meeting to serve as judges.

 

Posters will be reviewed by a panel of judges using the following criteria:

 

Are the objectives clear and logical extensions of the literature?

Is the method and design appropriate given the objectives outlined?

Are the results and their implications appropriately discussed?

Does the research make a significant contribution to the field?

 

The student research award winner receives a framed award and a gift certificate to the ABA book store. In addition, a copy of the winning poster is printed in the Autism SIG newsletter which reaches hundreds of professionals in the autism field. Winners of the 2007 Student Research Award were Lindsay Sessor of The Ohio State University, for her poster "The Effects of Embedded Questions on Reading Comprehension in Second Grade Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)" and Marie Rocha of the University of California, San Diego for her poster "Developing a Self-Initiation Training for Preverbal Children with Autism."

 

To submit your poster, all you need to do is complete and submit the Poster Contest Form* along with your poster. You can email your submission to Suzannah Ferraioli at autismsig@gmail.com or send via snail mail to:

 

Suzannah Ferraioli

Douglass Developmental Disabilities Center

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

151 Ryders Lane

New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8557

 

All entries must be received by June 15, 2008.

 

*The free Adobe reader is needed to open the Contest Form.