EvNet Index to Disabilities Questionnaires

ADAPTECH PROJECT COMPUTER AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

SURVEY OF POSTSECONDARY STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES / LES ÉTUDIANTS HANDICAPÉS DE NIVEAU POSTSECONDAIRE ET LES TECHNOLOGIES D'APPRENTISSAGE INFORMATIQUES - UNE ENQUÊTE DU PROJET ADAPTECH

Catherine S. Fichten, Jennison Asuncion, Darlene Judd, Maria Barile, Iris Alapin, Christian Généreux, Chantal Robillard
Dawson College, Montreal
1999

The goal of this questionnaire is to provide information needed to ensure that recent advances in computer and information technologies reflect the needs and concerns of postsecondary students with disabilities. There are 29 items; most are closed-ended and use a 6-point Likert scale.

Questionnaires are available in English and French. In addition to the regular print versions, both the English and French questionnaires area available in the following adapted formats: large print, audiotape, Braille, IBM-PC and Macintosh disk. Questions on the adapted versions were modified to permit respondents both to read and to complete the measure using alternate formats. Topics covered are:

1. Sex
2. Age
3. Language
4. Province where resident
5. Name and location of postsecondary educational institution
6. Field of study
7. Qualifications pursued
8. Nature and duration of disabilities/impairments
9. Computer, information and adaptive technologies used at home
10. Home computer technologies wish list
11. Computer, information and adaptive technologies used at school
12. School computer technologies wish list
13. Determinants and predictors of computer use and non-use
14. Adaptive computer technologies that could be useful to respondent in getting work done
15. Recommendations to adaptive software and hardware companies
16. Reasons for not using a computer
17. Type of computer used
18. Locations where computer is used during the school year
19. Time spent using a computer and the internet
20. Reasons for not using the internet
21. Uses of the internet for the respondent
22. Reasons for not taking advantage of a government program to obtain a computer or adaptive computer technologies
23. Experiences with government programs which provide computer or adaptive computer technologies
24. How did respondents obtain their computer or adaptive computer technologies
25. Problems caused by computer technologies for the respondent
26. Problems using computer technologies at school
27. Are specialized adaptations needed to use a computer
28. Reasons why needed specialized adaptations are not used
29. Other issues (open-ended items)

BRAILLE VERSION OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES SURVEY OF POSTSECONDARY STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES The Adaptech Project Team at Dawson College in Montreal developed this braille version of a survey of students with disabilities. It has been adapted from the print version. Students can braille or tape their answers, or answer on a computer disk or on a print questionnaire. This braille version is made available by EvNet in HTML format, and in plain text format. Go to the HTML version; // Go to the ascii text version. Go to the PDF Version.
DISK VERSION OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES SURVEY OF POSTSECONDARY STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES. ADAPTECH PROJECT. Go to the ascii text version. Go to the PDF Version.
PRINT VERSION OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES SURVEY OF POSTSECONDARY STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES. ADAPTECH PROJECT. Go to the MS Word version. Go to the PDF Version.
AUDIO TAPE VERSION OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES SURVEY OF POSTSECONDARY STUDENTS WITH DISABILITIES. ADAPTECH PROJECT. Go to the MS Word version. Go to the PDF Version.
STRUCTURED INTERVIEWS OF STUDENT AND DISABILITY SERVICE PROVIDERS. The goal of these two structured interview protocols is to provide open-ended information needed to ensure that recent advances in computer and information technologies reflect the needs and concerns of postsecondary students with disabilities and the disability service providers who make technological and other academic supports available to them. There are 17 items on the student interview and 18 on the disability service provider interview (student services professionals who provide support for students with disabilities). Go to the MS Word version. Go to the PDF Version.
SERVICE PROVIDER QUESTIONNAIRE ADAPTECH PROJECT. Go to the MS Word English version. ||| Go to the MS Word French version ||| Go to the PDF English Version. ||| Go to the PDF French Version
STUDENT INTERVIEW PROTOCOL ADAPTECH PROJECT. Go to the MS Word English version. ||| Go to the MS Word French version ||| Go to the PDF English Version. ||| Go to the PDF French Version