About Us
What is NatPAT?
The National Project on Achievement in Twins (NatPAT) is funded by the National Institutes of Health (grant number HD052120).
We are interested in understanding how reading and math skills develop together through elementary school. Twins allow us understand more about how these skills develop, namely the "nature and nurture" of the process. We are recruit twins from any school in the US that uses a DIBELS product.
How does NatPAT work?
We ask a school staff member to help us by simply handing out our recruitment package to the families of multiples in their school. The recruitment package is an envelope we can mail to the school, or through a link we can email.
Enrollment is easy, it is a one page form that parents fill out, and this is all that the families have to do. We already have permission from districts to do this work, as we will be using data already collected and sitting in the DIBELS database. If you would like to see more about this permission, the paperwork is below. We also have IRB permission for this study through FSU (below).
Once enrolled, our NatPAT families can expect paid research opportunities, including questionnaires and saliva collection for genomic sequencing. We also send out a yearly newsletter detailing the current research within our lab.
Interested to know more? Feel free to hit the "Email Us!" button to send an email to our staff, or you can call 1-877-708-9203. NatPAT is part of a larger group of projects through the Florida Learning Disabilities Research Center, funded by the NIH to the Florida Center for Reading Research.
The National Project on Achievement in Twins (NatPAT) is funded by the National Institutes of Health (grant number HD052120).
We are interested in understanding how reading and math skills develop together through elementary school. Twins allow us understand more about how these skills develop, namely the "nature and nurture" of the process. We are recruit twins from any school in the US that uses a DIBELS product.
How does NatPAT work?
We ask a school staff member to help us by simply handing out our recruitment package to the families of multiples in their school. The recruitment package is an envelope we can mail to the school, or through a link we can email.
Enrollment is easy, it is a one page form that parents fill out, and this is all that the families have to do. We already have permission from districts to do this work, as we will be using data already collected and sitting in the DIBELS database. If you would like to see more about this permission, the paperwork is below. We also have IRB permission for this study through FSU (below).
Once enrolled, our NatPAT families can expect paid research opportunities, including questionnaires and saliva collection for genomic sequencing. We also send out a yearly newsletter detailing the current research within our lab.
Interested to know more? Feel free to hit the "Email Us!" button to send an email to our staff, or you can call 1-877-708-9203. NatPAT is part of a larger group of projects through the Florida Learning Disabilities Research Center, funded by the NIH to the Florida Center for Reading Research.
District Approval
DIBELS Agreement
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IRB Approval
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