I have chosen to create a google form as part of my primary research as it is a reliable and easy way to gather information. The information I have gathered from this google form is trustworthy and I think the data collected from this is reliable as I shared the form and specifically targeted autistic women and girls meaning the information I have gathered has been created by the audience I am targeting and the research is relevant to the subject of my article. My method of distributing this form also makes the responses relevant to my article as I am writing about autism in women and girls and have gained responses from autistic women and girls. The information I have collected is very likely to be correct and factual as the people who have given this information have experienced personally their responses and would want to help out with this research so I am relatively sure they wouldn't lie and this information is correct. By sharing this on a range of social medias, my form had 122 responses meaning my research is varied and I have a wide variety of experiences and different audience types responding to my form. This makes my research more reliable and interesting as a wide variety of people have given their own experiences. This method of research was free and wasn't very time consuming. It took me around 10 minutes to create the form and 5 minutes to share this to a range of social medias meaning this method of research was very easy to do and effective.
Source - Interview with SENDCO
I have chosen to carry out an interview with the SENDCO (special educational needs and disabilities coordinator) at my college to talk about autism and the differences she has noticed in autism in boys and girls. As part of being a professional researcher, I have recorded this interview in order to create evidence of this and to allow myself to listen back on this interview and gather more information. The information I have gathered from this interview is trustworthy and truthful as it has come from one source with experience on the subject discussed. I have interviewed this person specifically because of her knowledge and relevence to autism and working with a wide range of autistic people daily. The information I have collected from this interview will help my article as it will give me another opinion of first hand experience with autism and the difference in genders.
Source - Very Well Health Article
I have chosen to use this article as part of my research because Very Well Health is an award-winning online resource that provides easy to understand and reliable medical information. The content on this website has been produced by health professionals and validated by board-certified physicians. This article talks about the difference in traits between autistic women and men, how these traits can go missed more than those in men, how previous research was mainly focused on men and how although more women are being diagnosed, there is still a lot of bias and misinformation when diagnosing women compared to men. As previously mentioned, the content in this article has been created by health professionals and validated and checked by board-certified physicians meaning these physicians have passed an exam and demonstrated their knowledge to a certifying body proving their information is correct and reliable. There is a variety of information on this article, mostly consisting of different traits in autistic women and girls and how these are different to those in men which I want to talk about in my article meaning this information is helpful and useful to me. This was a free and quick way of gathering this information as I just had to google search 'autism in women' and this article was suggested. I read through the article which took me around 5 minutes and decided the content was suitable for my article and information I wanted to use.
Source - The Guardian Article
I have chosen to use this article as part of my research because The Guardian is a reliable and popular broadsheet in the UK. The content on this article talks about Melanie Sykes experience and how her autism diagnosis at 51 helped her make sense of her struggles. It then goes on to talk about autism in women as a whole and how they are misdiagnosed and not understood especially compared to men. As the content in this article has been produced by a journalist associated with The Guardian which is a very trustworthy and well-known newspaper in the UK, this information is highly likely to be trusted and well accepted and understood by the audience. There is a variety of information in this article from personal experiences which the audience can relate to and may understand easier to statistics and traits of autism in women compared to men. I want to talk about these aspects in my article so have found this very helpful to my research. This was again a free and quick way of gathering information as I searched in Google 'Autism in Girls Experiences' and this article came up which I read through in around 5 minutes and concluded I wanted to take inspiration from content in this article.
