08/28/2025
Dear ABAzing Families:
Motivity, the company that makes the software that our staff uses for therapy data collection, is conducting an NIH-funded research study to determine the effectiveness and impact of some of their upcoming features, and we would like to offer you a chance to participate.
The new Motivity features, called “Goalspace” are intended to help you better participate in your child’s therapy. As you know, it’s important for you to help your child practice the skills being taught in therapy, and to collect some data at home so that we can track progress outside of sessions. For this reason, we sometimes give you assignments and ask you to write down the results for us. But we know that it can be challenging to remember to do perform these activities. Goalspace will help you remember by providing timely alerts on your phone. You can click on the alert to see the instructions of what actions we are asking you to take, and then you can enter the results right on your phone. We think this will make things easier for you, increase the consistency of your participation, and provide us with more data about your child’s response to therapy outside of sessions, so we can make more informed treatment adjustments (such as when we need to make changes to a program to help accelerate your child’s progress).
Our organization will be one of the first to test the new features. Motivity is seeking families to try out the features and provide user feedback. They will be tracking how the software is used and what its impact is on parent participation, treatment decisions, and child progress.
If you decide to participate, you will randomly be assigned to one of two groups which use the Goalspace features for differing amounts of time. Your Behavior Analyst will explain how to use the software. After a 30-day baseline observation period, both groups will be given assignments for 30 days using paper or online forms without alerts; then one group will start using Goalspace with alerts for 60 days, while the other group will continue to user paper/forms for another 30 days then switch to Goalspace with alerts for the final 30 days.
Motivity will ask you to fill out a brief survey at the beginning and end of the study. Your opinions will be kept confidential.
After the study, if we decide to keep using the Goalspace features, then all our users will have access to it.
Your participation is completely voluntary. If you are interested in participating, please fill out Motivity’s [Study Participation Form] and they will send you more information.
Sincerely,
ABAzing
