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    Are you a parent with a child younger than 18 years of age? Are you searching for new and fascinating activities to do with your children? Do you have an interest in helping researchers at UConn discover new things about how we develop?

    If so, sign your family up for UCONN K.I.D.S. (Kids in Developmental Science), a consortium of research labs at the University of Connecticut Storrs and Waterbury branches, who study a wide range of topics in child behavior and human development, including perceptual/motor, social, cognitive and language areas.  We also maintain a research participant database. 

    Joining UCONN K.I.D.S. allows us to contact you (via mail, email or phone) about particular studies that your children are eligible for. 

    Compensation may be offered to parents and children for particular research studies that they participate in. 

    How Can I Join?

    Online, via our website:  kids.uconn.edu (Go to “Join Us”---“Sign Up Now”)

    In person, by filling out our informational sign-up sheet (if you see us out in the community)

    By calling or emailing us: 860-486-2675 or kids@uconn.edu

     

    For more information about UCONN K.I.D.S., please contact Caroline Thibodeau (kids@uconn.edu or 860-486-2675) or visit our website at kids.uconn.edu

    Also, follow us on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/uconnkids) and Twitter (https://twitter.com/JoinUConnKIDS). 

    Thank you.

    This database has been approved by the University of Connecticut Institutional Review Board; Protocol H14-230

    Principal Investigator:  Adam Sheya

    For more information, contact: Caroline Thibodeau/Psychology Department at 860-486-2675/kids@uconn.edu