Sign-up to participate!

If you would like participate in a study with your child, either now or in the future, please email the Research Coordinator with the information listed below. Alternately, you can call Dr. Scott at (413)549-5965. Adding your information does not obligate you to participate, it only means that you are willing to have us call you if your child is the right age for a particular study at a given time. If after explaining the study to you, you wish to participate, we will arrange a time for you and your child to come to our lab.

1. Name of infant/child
2. Gender
3. Birthdate
4. Due Date
5. Birth weight
6. Your name (parent's names)
7. Street address
8. City, State, ZIP
9. Email address
10. Telephone # and best time to call
11. How you heard about us
12. Any other information that you think we might need to know.
13. Whether you have other children (names, ages)
14. If you and/or your significant other would like to be contacted for adult research opportunities in out lab, please include your names and birthdates also.

Confidentiality

The Participate Recruitment Database is confidential and maintained by our lab staff at the Brain, Cognition & Development Laboratory at the University of Massachusetts. Information will never be given to anyone who is not directly affiliated with the projects associated with the database. Your information will be maintained in the database until your child passes adolescence. Of course, you may withdraw from a study at any time, or have your family's contact information removed from our records for any reason. If you ever wish to have your family's information revised or removed you can call (413)-545-2901 and we will update the database immediately. If you have further questions about our studies with infants, children, and adolescents, please call Dr. Scott at (413) 545-5965, and we will be happy to tell you more about our research efforts.