Who wants to help with a short study? :)

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Mods, I already know I put this in Members Only discussion, but if I want to get this done on time I really need some traffic, cuz at this rate I won't (and I have been surveying outside WP). I just need 22 more people to help me with this survey, it will take you no more than a minute.

As of right now, I am currently enrolled in Statistics class at my college, and my end-semester project involves the collection of data and proper analysis, so I decided that I would do an analysis of individuals with Asperger Syndrome. I am looking to get at least 35 subjects to fill out this short questionnaire below, it’s really short, though I have only a few conditions:

• You must have Asperger Syndrome.
• You must be professionally diagnosed; sorry, but no self-diagnoses

Also, I won't share the personal information you give me outside of the academic environment. No one will be able to trace what you give me back to you (if privacy is a concern for you).

With that, here is the questionnaire!!

1. Have you been diagnosed by a qualified practitioner (neurologist, psychiatrist, etc.)?
2. Have you been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome?
3. How many years has it been since you have been diagnosed?
4. What is your current age?
5. What is the highest level of education that you have pursued? Select One (Delete all that don't apply)
a. Currently in high school or earlier
b. High school graduate, no further education
c. Two-year college experience, no graduation
d. Two-year college graduate
e. Four –year college experience, no graduation
f. Four-year college graduate
g. More than undergraduate degree
6. How many total years have you been pursuing education?*

*In short, how many total years have you been sitting in a classroom setting or enrolled in school?

With that, thank you so much in advance!

Last edited by Capriccio on 03 Apr 2008, 10:49 am, edited 5 times in total.

You left one out,
many Aspies drop out of school because of bullying and what not.

That would have been a good idea, seeing dropout rates are an epidemic nowadays. It's a bit too late to add it in, though people have indicated it in the study themselves already, so if you want to put that in, that's okay. Besides, I'll be able to deduct that from the age and number of years in school too.

1. Have you been diagnosed by a qualified psychologist?
Wasn't that a requirement to participate?

2. Have you been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome?
Again wasn't that a requirement?

3. How many years has it been since you have been diagnosed?
I was 8, so nearly 10 years. I wasn't told untill I was 16 though.

4. What is your current age?
17, I'll be 18 in a months time.

5. What is the highest level of education that you have pursued? Select One (Delete all that don't apply) a. Currently in high school or earlier
I guess you would call it high school, but the danish schoolsystem is somewhat different from yours.

6. How many total years have you been pursuing education?
12 years and counting.

aye I know it was a req... just making sure

1. Have you been diagnosed by a qualified psychologist?

Yes, Laudi Jefferies from a midlands based mental health team

2. Have you been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome?

Yes

3. How many years has it been since you have been diagnosed?

4 years now

4. What is your current age?

25
5. What is the highest level of education that you have pursued? Select One (Delete all that don't apply)

I am currently doing a Joint Honours Course 'History and Business Computing Systems' and am at the end of the 1st year, i entered Education again two years ago doing an Adult Access Course after i was told i was actually quite smart... who knew??


6. How many total years have you been pursuing education?

umm.... spent 9 years in normal school up to 6th form but dropped out (age 5 to 16)

then from september in 2005 to now i have been in education again... (23 - 25)

1. Have you been diagnosed by a qualified psychologist?
Yes, and by other qualified doctors as well.

2. Have you been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome?
Yes, by every doctor.

3. How many years has it been since you have been diagnosed?
Well, three months. So a quarter of a year.

4. What is your current age?
22.

5. What is the highest level of education that you have pursued?
f. Four-year college graduate (at least, I will be at the end of the month).

6. How many total years have you been pursuing education?
From kindergarten through to today, it has been 17 years.

1. Have you been diagnosed by a qualified psychologist?
Yes.

2. Have you been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome?
Yes, when the syndrome became available.

3. How many years has it been since you have been diagnosed?
1 year (I was PDD-NOS for nearly 20 years)

4. What is your current age?
32

5. What is the highest level of education that you have pursued? Select One (Delete all that don't apply)
f. Four-year college graduate

6. How many total years have you been pursuing education?*
16 years (I went straight through without interruption.)

1. Have you been diagnosed by a qualified psychologist?
Yes
2. Have you been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome?
Yes
3. How many years has it been since you have been diagnosed?
0.25
4. What is your current age?
53
5. What is the highest level of education that you have pursued
Four-year college graduate
6. How many total years have you been pursuing education?
22

1. Have you been diagnosed by a qualified psychologist? No, I was diagnosed by a qualified neurologist.

2. Have you been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome?
No, I am diagnosed as Higher Functioning Autistic with sensory/attention/and anxiety issues.
I was misdiagnosed as bipolar and OCD (5th grade and 8th grade, respectfully)
The following diagnosis were already established: Diabetes Type II, Asthma, Allergies, Anemia, and Mitral Valve Prolapse.
I just got "unofficially" diagnosed with Auditory Processing Disorder in November of 2007 (meaning, because I'm autistic, they can't rule it out, but because I have obvious difficulities with processing language in noisy backgrounds, they can't rule out the auditory processing disorder).

3. How many years has it been since you have been diagnosed?
Four. I was diagnosed when I was 22.

4. What is your current age?
Current age: 26.

5. What is the highest level of education that you have pursued? Select One (Delete all that don't apply)
g. More than undergraduate degree
I will have my Master of Library Science as of May 2008.

6. How many total years have you been pursuing education?
Including high school? 22 years. That's 85% of my life!

In translation, which of these options would be like 13 years of schooling/Abitur/A-Level/university entrance certificate?

Because I'm really clueless about this.

1. Have you been diagnosed by a qualified psychologist?
Yes
2. Have you been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome?
Yes
3. How many years has it been since you have been diagnosed?
1 and 1/2 years
4. What is your current age?
16
5. What is the highest level of education that you have pursued? Select One (Delete all that don't apply)
c. Two-year college experience, no graduation (am currently in my 1st year of college)
6. How many total years have you been pursuing education?*
12 years

Are you from a nation besides the US? Because I forgot to take into account that many users of WP are outside the US, and the educational system is not homogeneously structured throughout the world I'm a little bit confused as to what kinds of schools those are that you're describing though. Could you clarify what they are?

Well, think of high school completion as being the schooling that you are required by law to take. It's basically your nation's standardized educational system, and everything after that is simply optional education. I should probably just add another option, h. other.

Mmm, I'll work with whatever information you all give me as far as variability goes and I'll account for it on my own.

Yes, I'm outside the US, my family lives in Germany. The school system of the US is so different to the German system. In Germany there is elementary school (grades 1 to 4 usually) and secondary school, the later divided into three different types of schools. It's getting more complicated, because they all lead to different qualifications. The Abitur is the highest certificate one can get in school and it's acquired after completing grade 13 and final exams. (The other types of sec. schools cover classes from grades 5 to 9 and/or 5 to 10).

Only with the Abitur one is allowed to study at a university. Become a doctor, psychologist, linguistics professor... Germany follow European standards in regards to university degrees.

Did that make sense? I assume it's as confusing as the US system is for me!


Now, I suppose this would indeed be...



Oh well.



1. Have you been diagnosed by a qualified practitioner (neurologist, psychiatrist, etc.)?
By a psychologist in a children's and youth's psychiatry.

2. Have you been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome?
Official diagnosis is F84.5 (ICD-10) which is Asperger's Syndrome.

3. How many years has it been since you have been diagnosed?
I've been diagnosed sometime in March 2007.

4. What is your current age?
19 years old now and 20 years old in five days.

5. What is the highest level of education that you have pursued? Select One (Delete all that don't apply)
h. other

6. How many total years have you been pursuing education?
14 years, ages 6 to 20.

1) yes
2)yes
3)about 1 and half years
4)44
5)Graduated BA in Psychology
6)5 years in college...(took a few summer classes but also took a few quarters off for "breakdowns" over those years.)I am still "persueing" an education, mostly my own sylabis but would love to have the money to go to graduate school.