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Understanding Social Work and Humanities students' insights on disabled socialization

Help us determine your position on disability, in order to improve future learning materials:
1.How often do you think about disability, or social inclusion of the disabled by yourself, outside of university class?(Required.)
2.How confident are you in identifying any experiential barriers disabled people face in socializing, without reading academic texts?(Required.)
3.I find it difficult, or impossible to imagine for physically disabled people participating in certain typical social activities.(Required.)
4.How easy is it for you to imagine partially disabled people participating themselves in a group's social/outing activities?(Required.)
5.Do you find it valuable to explore the social aspects of life affected by disability, beyond the extent course study materials offer?(Required.)
6.How often do you critically examine aspects of social life from your own experience and apply them to the disabled?(Required.)
7.How important is it for you to verify information about disabilities by talking directly to people with disabilities?(Required.)
8.Which methods do you use to understand the social limitations faced by disabled people? Select all that apply.(Required.)
9.How often does your field work with disabled people change your perception of them?(Required.)
10.I am able to integrate some knowledge from other disciplines, when addressing the socialization needs of disabled people(Required.)
11.Do you seek additional sources to complete your understanding when encountering new information about socializing disabled people?(Required.)
12.I have difficulty understanding the purpose, or importance of socialization activity to people with physical, or other disabilities.(Required.)
13.I find it hard to imagine for physically disabled people to be participating in certain typical social activities.(Required.)
14.I think I can dissect and analyze which are the factors/aspects of life, that make for people’s socialization activity.(Required.)
15.I take notice of what study materials include, and which factors/areas to life they ignore, or omit when regarding disability.(Required.)
16.Learning, discovering new information about socialization with disability makes me want to find out even more on my own.(Required.)
17.I want to figure out and understand what socialization challenges disabled people may face by myself, not just to read about them.(Required.)
18.I can distinguish what is important information that matters, apart from irrelevant material, when learning about life with disability.(Required.)
19.I engage in critically examining aspects of social life, that are present in my own experience and apply them to the disabled.(Required.)
20.I check across multiple sources to build a comprehensive understanding of the social limitations people with disabilities face.(Required.)
21.I prefer to engage fewer, but more comprehensive sources to present me various perspectives on disability socialization.(Required.)
22.I can identify which specific aspects of social life may be limited for people with disabilities, because of societal attitudes.(Required.)
23.I try to identify what are the unmet needs and desires of people with disabilities, that society most ignores, or overlooks.(Required.)
24.I verify info by talking directly to people with disabilities in practice, to check if what's learned holds true in real environments.(Required.)
25.Before meeting up people with disabilities, I want to study as much theoretical material about their issues as possible first.(Required.)
26.I prefer to learn about disabled people's needs directly from them straight away in practice, rather than reading much theory first.(Required.)
27.When reading about disabilities, I try to understand the author's own perspective, outlook, or biases that they may be coming from(Required.)
28.I struggle to identify the social experiences that disabled people would strive for, which they may find difficulty in achieving(Required.)
29.What I learn in school about social aspects of disability suffices for me when I am in field work practice with disabled clients.(Required.)
30.Info about socialization that I receive directly from disabled people, changes my views on the subject from what I've learned at university.(Required.)
31.I can easily recall and interpret lecture information through the course of my field work, when interacting with disabled people.(Required.)
32.I seek opportunities to apply my classroom learning in the course of my field work practice with disabled people.(Required.)
33.My field work with physically, or lightly mentally disabled people has positively changed my attitude/perception of them.(Required.)
34.When I encounter new information about socialization challenges for disabled people, I find it easily to change my previous opinions.(Required.)
35.I can recognize and identify such kinds of social experiences, the absence of which limits social well-being for disabled people.(Required.)
36.Which country are you based in?(Required.)
37.What is your current level of university study?
38.What is your gender identity?