National Student Survey on Respect of People with Developmental Disabilities
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We are The Arc of Riverside County and we are taking a survey to help us better understand how people with developmental disabilities are viewed in our schools and communities.

People of all ages and from any place have the opportunity to participate. There are no right or wrong answers, only opinions and answers based on what you know and observe around you about these members of our community.

This is an anonymous survey but we are asking respondents to give us their zip code to ensure that we are obtaining responses from many different areas of our state and country.

The survey takes about 5 minutes to complete and a little longer if you choose to comment where it is indicated. Thanks for taking the time to help us.

What is a developmental Disability?

This survey is about people with developmental disabilities. These individuals may attend Special Education classes in school or may need aid in doing regular class work. Many also need support for different aspects of daily living including working at various jobs. The people having this disability vary greatly in their need for support from other people. People who have Down syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, and Autism are often said to have a developmental disability.

1. What is your gender?

2. What is your approximate age?

3. What is your ethnicity?

4. Please indicate the last grade or level of education you have completed.

5. What is your zip code?

6. Which of the words below do you believe is the most offensive to people with developmental disabilities?

7. When you think of a person with a disability, what do you think of first?

8. Do you have a disability?

9. Do you have an immediate family member with a developmental disability?

10. Do you have any friends that have a developmental disability (someone you talk to more than once a week)?

11. How often do you socialize with a person with a developmental disability?

12. Do you think that you will have friends with developmental disabilities throughout the rest of your life?

13. How often did you hear the words “retarded” or “retard” in the last week?

14. How often have you said the word “retard” or “retarded” in the last week?

15. Do you find the word “retard” or “retarded” offensive when used to describe a person with a developmental disability?

16. Why do you think a person calls someone else a “retard” or “retarded”?

17. Do you think that if a new word replaced the word “retard” or “retarded” to describe people with developmental disabilities, people would use it in the same way?

18. Have you seen a movie in the last two years that included a person with a developmental disability or talked about a person with a developmental disability in a way that made fun of them?

19. Have you heard a comedian, radio personality, actor or other celebrity use the word “retard” or “retarded” in a way that is negative in the past year?

20. Is “retard” or “retarded” a word that is often used by adults that you know?

21. Would you boycott a business, website or movie that portrayed people with developmental disabilities in a negative way?

22. If you owned a business, do you think you would hire someone with a developmental disability?

23. Do you think that people with developmental disabilities should be able to marry someone if that is what they want?

24. Do you think that people with developmental disabilities should be able to live independently if that is what they want?

25. Do you think that people with developmental disabilities are abused and neglected more often than people without disabilities?

26. When people with developmental disabilities encounter the police because they have been abused or because they are charged with a crime, how do you think they are treated?