Reminder: Proposal due March 29

Your poster will contain substantive information presented in a very abbreviated form. It must also contain at least three references, i.e., places that people can find additional information and that will back up what you put on your poster. They should be eye catching without too busy work. You do not have to be an artist. The judicious use of fonts and “autoshapes” in MSWord should be enough. Do not sensationalize. Remember who will be seeing these posters—faculty, staff, visitors, and students from folks right out of high school to graduate students.

References should be reputable.

They can be for public consumption rather than strictly empirical journal articles.
Web sites are acceptable if they are hosted by a reputable and professional source.
Examples would be MASSPAC (the association of parent advisory councils for students with special needs across the Commonwealth), which is not professional but reputable or the APA (American Psychological Association), which is professional and reputable.
Stay away from personal or renegade websites. See guideline.

NOTE: All posters must be on standard posterboard (flexible, not trifold), must be neat, must be posted by you in Mahoney Hall after your class presentation and removed by you no earlier than 5/19/04 and no later than 5/24/04. Failure to comply with any of these criteria will penalize your grade.

Your brochure will contain the same type of information.

It will permit more detail and be somewhat less artsy.
Good brochures will reproduce well in black and white.
Keep them simple.
You can use MS Word. Go to File, Page Set Up, Paper Size on the menu bar and select “Landscape” orientation. You can then type “sideways” on the paper. Next, go to Format, Columns, and select “Three” or the icon showing three columns. When you want to start a new column go to Insert, Break and select “Column Break.”
Use the ADHD brochure passed out in class as a guide.
Additional resources for brochure creation can be found under Assignments

Types of information to focus on can include: early warning signs, how to help, characteristics of disorders, what it feels like/simulations, disability rights, prevalence, types of treatment, who should provide treatment, and so forth.

Be sure your projects are psychological in nature and not more appropriately suited to general health or pediatric or nutrition. If you are interested in a physical disorder, be sure to focus on the psychosocial aspects of it.

On both poster and brochure, indicate “Prepared by: [your name or names] as a class project for 47-361: Problems and Issues in Childhood and Adolescence. Dr. Doreen Arcus, Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts Lowell.” It doesn't have to be huge but must be clearly stated.