MENTIS Personal Health Record Rapid Pilot Research Deployment and Evaluation

Group 1: Six (6) students from the Discovery School and their respective support staff. Inclusion criteria include a diagnosis of ASD and enrollment in the Discovery School due to frequently observed challenging behaviors. Reporters will include: 2 teachers, HCP and parent/guardian.

Group 2: Fourteen (14) students receiving services from Center for Discovery (but outside the Discovery School), their respective support staff, and, for those who live at home, their parents. Inclusion criteria includes a diagnosis of ASD, seven (7) students who reside in a CfD provided campus home, and seven (7) students who reside in the local community with their parents. Reporters will include: 2 teachers, HCP, residential staff and parents.

Stakeholders: Healthcare professionals, classroom teachers, residential staff, and parents who support students with ASD in Groups 1 and 2 above.

Inclusion Criteria:

Student Participants:

• Meet standard classroom selection criteria of age, gender, intellectual ability, communication ability and behavioral characteristics (frequency and duration of maladaptive behaviors).
• Be enrolled at Center for Discovery, have a Behavioral Intervention Plan (BIP), and an Individualized Education Plan (IEP).
• Have a diagnosis of autism.
• Be between the ages of 5 and 21 years, inclusive.
• Tolerate wearing physiological wrist, ankle, and chest monitors.

Residential and School Staff:

• Employed at The Center for Discovery.
• Meet Center for Discovery requirements for working with students in the classroom or residence and have experience in teaching or intervening with students who exhibit maladaptive behaviors.
• Willing to consent to add data to the system via the supplied tablet for the duration of the study.
• Willing to consent to participate in either focus groups or individual interviews about their experience of using the system and to be video recorded doing so.

Parent Participants:

• Be the parent or legal guardian of one of the 20 students enrolled in the study.
• Willing to consent to add data to the system via the supplied tablet for the duration of the study.
• Willing to consent to participate in either focus groups or individual interviews about their experience using the system and to be video recorded doing so.

Exclusion Criteria:

Student Participants:

• Younger than 5 years at the start of the school year.
• Not reach the age of 21 years prior to the end of the school year during which the study will take place.
• Not enrolled at Center for Discovery.
• Do not tolerate wearing physiological monitors after repeated trials of modeling, desensitization, shaping, and reinforcement.

Residential and School Staff:

• Have not been employed for at least one year prior to participating in the study.
• Do not consent to adding data.
• Do not consent to participant in focus groups or interviews.
• Do not consent to being recorded during focus groups or interviews.

Parent Participants:

• Are not the parent or legal guardian of one of the student enrolled.
• Do not consent to participate in either focus groups of individual interviews about their experience using the system and to be video recorded doing so.