Disabled First

Let the Disabled Have Their Voice Heard

Our company is dedicated to helping the disabled have their voices heard through our research and survey efforts and engaging the disabled through a variety of communications and analytical methods. We realize that each individual with a disability has their own story and their own unique abilities, attitudes, personality, and needs. They are an integral part in solving problems that face them as individuals and as groups and we need their input to help our company serve them in a beneficial way. The following questions should only take about five minutes to complete and will be the first of a series of methods we will use in partnership with individuals with disabilities in having their voices heard.

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* 1. Do you consider yourself or your child to have a disability?

Yes, myself

Yes, my child

If Yes, Please Specify You or Your Child’s Major Disability

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* 2. When did you acquire your disability?

Born with disability

Resulted from disease before age 18

Resulted from disease at age 19 to 50

Resulted from disease after age of 50

Resulted from an accident before age 18

Resulted from an accident after age 18

Resulted from war injury

Resulted from natural aging

Other (please specify)

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* 3. Have you experienced or have you witnessed discrimination against the disabled?

A great deal

A lot

A moderate amount

A little

None at all

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* 4. In what ways do you frequently see discrimination or prejudices expressed against the disabled? (Check all that apply)

Direct verbal confrontation or harassment of a disabled individual

Not acknowledging the presence of a disabled individual

Inappropriate gestures toward the disabled individual

Laughing or making fun of an individual's disability

Avoiding face contact with a disabled individual

Not hiring a disabled individual even when qualified

Not promoting a disabled individual even when best qualified

Not inviting a disabled individual to a group activity

Being condescending to a disabled individual

Not recognizing the abilities of a disabled individual

Failing to develop activities with accomodations for disabled individuals

Expressing disgust or shock to a disabled individual's disability

Other (please specify)

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* 5. Do you believe people harbor prejudices against the disabled? (Check all that apply)

Yes, the vast majority of people have prejudices against the disabled

Yes, but very few people have prejudices against the disabled

Yes, but it varies with the education level of the people judging the disabled

Yes, but it varies with the extent to which people have interacted with the disabled

Yes, but it varies according to the type of disability people are judging

Yes, but it totally depends on the behavior of the disabled individual

No, I believe people no longer have prejudices against the disabled

Other (please specify)

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* 6. Do you believe adequate research and services are available to eliminate prejudices and discrimination against the disabled?

Yes, a great deal

Yes, a lot

Yes, a moderate amount

Yes, a little

No, none at all

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* 7. With regard to you or your child, what do you see as the major problems in serving the disabled? (Check all that apply)

Organizations and the public do not realized the vast number of differences and needs among the disabled

Organizations and the public disregard the emotional needs of the disabled

Organizations and the public tend to focus too greatly on an individual’s disability rather than their abilities

Organizations and the public tend to devalue the worth of a disabled individual because of their disability

Organizations and the public are poorly informed of the needs and abilities of the disabled

There is an insufficient number of disabled role models in organizations due to a reluctance to place qualified disabled individuals in prominent positions

Other (please specify)

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* 8. In your own words, what are the services to the disabled that you would most like to see offered or improved?

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* 9. Cogentica, LLC is considering offering new services to the disabled and elderly through our website. It is our desire to make this a website where the clients have the major voice in how they are served. Many ideas as to how this may be accomplished but since our company is research oriented, we believe that research is a viable avenue for accomplishing and reaching our clients' goals. For example, we could establish a registry of disabled and elderly clients that you can join anonymously (we are all tired of being tracked and used for the profit of others). You would provide information on your disabilities and other demographic data via your own user selected id. We could use this registry to select members to participate in paid studies should they desire to do so. Only at that point would you be contacted by your email to put you in touch with the study administrator. Any revenue we receive as a company would be split with the participants of the study and ourselves to maintain the website and your activities. In any event, we plan to have an advisory committee selected from our registry members who have expressed interest. The advisory committee would play a major role in focusing the activities of our company and the website.

Would you be interested in joining the registry or the advisory committee?

Yes

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* 1. Do you consider yourself or your child to have a disability?

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* 2. When did you acquire your disability?

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* 3. Have you experienced or have you witnessed discrimination against the disabled?

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* 4. In what ways do you frequently see discrimination or prejudices expressed against the disabled? (Check all that apply)

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* 5. Do you believe people harbor prejudices against the disabled? (Check all that apply)

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* 6. Do you believe adequate research and services are available to eliminate prejudices and discrimination against the disabled?

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* 7. With regard to you or your child, what do you see as the major problems in serving the disabled? (Check all that apply)

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* 8. In your own words, what are the services to the disabled that you would most like to see offered or improved?

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* 10. If you answered yes to question 9, pleased enter your email address in the following textbox: