Southwest Educational Development Laboratory
Volume 3, Number 2, 1998
Responses to questions one, two, and six are presented in the following tables, and responses to questions three, four, and five are presented in figures. Each table or figure presents overall responses for stakeholder groups in aggregate form, followed by responses for individual stakeholder groups. The tables are organized with response choices listed in columns and the stakeholder groups listed in rows. In addition, the responses chosen most frequently by all stakeholders are in the first column, followed by the second, third, and so on, regardless of the order in which the response choice appeared on the survey. The stakeholder groups are listed according to their overall rate of response as presented in Table 1. The number in each cell gives the percent of respondents that selected a particular response.
Responses among the stakeholder groups to this question were similar, although there were some variations in the percentage of respondents using a particular source to get information. Overall, the stakeholders chose 'Print Media,' including books, magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, and brochures, most frequently.
Examining the stakeholder groups individually, all but Rehabilitation Facilities (RF) and Legislators/Aides (LEG) also chose this as the most frequent response. The range of percentages for this information source was 75 to 97 percent. The least frequent response for most groups was 'Non-Print Media' (Braille, audio tapes, readers) with a range of 3 to 33 percent. The State Directors of Special Education (SDSE) had a higher percentage of participants identifying a wide variety of sources to obtain information, while Legislators/Aides (LEG) reported using few of the information sources. The most frequent response for Legislators/Aides was 'Professionals.'
| Stakeholder Group |
Print Media |
Groups | Professional People |
Other People |
Computer | Popular Media |
Non-Print Media |
Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Stakeholders |
90 | 82 | 76 | 64 | 62 | 48 | 21 | 16 |
| SDSE | 96 | 90 | 82 | 76 | 94 | 39 | 33 | 29 |
| CAP/APA | 97 | 91 | 77 | 72 | 77 | 47 | 19 | 22 |
| IL | 95 | 93 | 76 | 76 | 70 | 60 | 32 | 12 |
| MEDIA | 87 | 61 | 70 | 52 | 71 | 38 | 21 | 29 |
| RF | 88 | 89 | 88 | 65 | 61 | 43 | 16 | 11 |
| RESNA | 86 | 75 | 86 | 54 | 61 | 29 | 7 | 7 |
| CEPD | 87 | 78 | 68 | 51 | 41 | 52 | 16 | 12 |
| LEG | 75 | 71 | 87 | 59 | 39 | 33 | 3 | 22 |
Key to Acronyms used.
SDSE=State Directors of Special Education
CAP/APA=Directors of Client Assistance Programs/Advocacy and Protection Agencies
IL=Administrators of Independent Living Organizations
MEDIA=Disability Media Representatives
RF=Administrators of Medical Rehabilitation Facilities
RESNA=Members of the Rehabilitative Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America
CEPD=Members of Committees on Employment of People with Disabilities
LEG=Federal and State Legislators/Aides
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