1. What area of interest/research question do you wish to explore through a research study design?
How children diagnosed with an autism spectrum can overcome the situation.
2. What variables or concepts are you looking to observe and/or manipulate?
The therapies and how their parents face the situation
3.What type of design would best suit your research question? (Experimental, correlational, etc)
Experimental Studies
4. What research method would you use to conduct your experiment? (Survey, case study, naturalistic observation, lab experiment, etc.)
Naturalistic observation would be the best type of design.
5. If applicable, what would you put as your independent and dependent variables?
The independent variable would be the therapies children receive (which one is the best), the way their parents treat them and the dependent variable would be the result of these therapies or how their parents helped them to improve their situation.
6. Give a hypothesis about what you think you might find
Children could overcome the situation and socialize, focus, keep a conversation. Also children receiving therapies might stress because of their disability to express themselves. Parents may not follow the orders of the therapist because they feel bad or sad about the situation that they faced for their children.
7. What might be the benefits and implications of this study? In other words, who would gain from it?
Children and parents would benefit a lot. They are improving their lives. The most important thing is that children could overcome their situation.
8. Please reflect on the process of designing this experiment. What were the challenges you faced? Was this more/less difficult than you expected? How?
It was more difficult than I expected because to design an experiment is not as easy as it seems.