PANDABox Baby Sibling Extension
Telehealth-based research offers a promising future frontier for developmental surveillance, particularly families who are geographically dispersed or who have children affected by medical and behavioral features that complicate or prevent travel. However, to date, most telehealth-based clinical research is observational in nature (e.g. video diaries, Skype-based interviews) and fails to integrate experimental methods that have shown the most promise for detecting emergent clinical features. To meet this need, Dr. Kelleher received a 5-year NIH K23 award to develop PANDABox, a novel telehealth-based platform for remotely monitoring early clinical risk factors in rare syndromes. This platform goes beyond behavioral observation methods typically employed in telehealth research to include metrics that are more sensitive to acute developmental changes, including eye movements, vocal acoustics, and psychophysiology.
The PANDAbox Baby Sibling Extension was led by Kelleher Lab graduate student Lisa Hamrick (now Dr. Hamrick) and aimed to translate the procedures developed through Dr. Kelleher's NIH PANDAbox study to another cohort of children who have an older sibling diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. In this extension of the PANDAbox project, families of children aged 3-30 months who had an older sibling with autism were invited to participate in a one-time telehealth-based assessment.
Participation in this study was completed from home and involved four components: 1) web based surveys, 2) a phone interview, 3) a day-long recording of the child's vocalizations, and 4) a telehealth-based session in which a researcher would interact with the parent and their child in real time.
**We are NOT currently recruiting for this study! Thank you!**
The PANDAbox Baby Sibling Extension was led by Kelleher Lab graduate student Lisa Hamrick (now Dr. Hamrick) and aimed to translate the procedures developed through Dr. Kelleher's NIH PANDAbox study to another cohort of children who have an older sibling diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. In this extension of the PANDAbox project, families of children aged 3-30 months who had an older sibling with autism were invited to participate in a one-time telehealth-based assessment.
Participation in this study was completed from home and involved four components: 1) web based surveys, 2) a phone interview, 3) a day-long recording of the child's vocalizations, and 4) a telehealth-based session in which a researcher would interact with the parent and their child in real time.
**We are NOT currently recruiting for this study! Thank you!**
