Study Tools- Phase 1
The primary tool used for this phase of the
study was an online questionnaire posted
on the Families for Early Autism Treatment,
FEAT, a website dedicated to families and
educators of children with autism. This same
questionnaire was also distributed to the
caregivers and teachers of the Advance
Society for Developing Skills of Special Needs
Children, Cairo
1
. Participants were asked to
rank 5 architectural factors - acoustics, visual (colors & patterns), visual (lighting), texture, olfactory and spatial sequencing of functions, from the most in
fluential to the least.