Research and Data
Prototype
My prototypes for this project was my two interview videos. One about my family and one about my cousins family. If you go to my website and scroll down you'll be able to find both videos:)
Mentor Involvement
My project idea includes a test type survey to match up the people who use my website as a support source with a specialist to help them with their journey to success. I have been communicating with one of my mentors, Jil Frey, to help create the questions and to make sure that it does direct them in the right direction,
Data & Analysis
Starting my research off I mainly looked at Autism Speaks to get a better understanding before I even started my project.
Walking into this project I never knew the true difference between everyone who was diagnosed with autism. I always thought that they were the same because they had the same diagnosis, which is NOT the case. My brother and cousin being the main reason I created this project, it opened my eyes in ways that if I didn't do this project I would have no idea what I was talking about. Learning the different levels, what its like being a kid with non-verbal autism (Brody, my cousin) vs. a kid with verbal autism (Jordan, my brother). I conducted two interviews with both my family and my cousins family to dig deeper into what it is like having a kid who was diagnosed and what they did to help their kid succeed.