They conducted participant recruitment
through three venues: (a) physicians’ offices, (b) a parent and
family support group for autism, and (c) local educational
agencies. They sent invitations in the form of a printed flyer
in Western Pennsylvania in an area that (a) all three venues
overlapped, (b) was predominately rural (as defined by the
Center for Rural Pennsylvania, 2010), and (c) contained many
families that tended to experience unmet service needs (as defined
by Kohler, 1999).