Survey Results - Question Three

Does your organization ever get information from the Internet?

Overall, stakeholders reported they use the Internet to get information. Fifty-nine percent of the stakeholders responded that they access information from the Internet 'Very Often' or 'Often,' while 36 percent responded 'Only Once or Twice' or 'Never.' Five percent responded 'Don't Know.'

There is a great deal of variation in the responses among the stakeholder groups to this question. SDSE reported using the Internet most often with 94 percent choosing 'Very Often' or 'Often.' CAP/APA was next highest with 72 percent choosing 'Very Often' or 'Often,' followed by MEDIA (71 percent), RESNA (71 percent), IL (62 percent), RF (55 percent), and LEG (54 percent). CEPD was the only stakeholder group with less than half the respondents reporting frequent use of the Internet (36 percent). The two groups who reported using the Internet least often to access information were CEPD (53 percent reported they used the Internet to get information 'Never' or 'Only Once or Twice') and RF (40 percent responded 'Never' or 'Only Once or Twice').

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Question Three: Does your organization ever get information from the Internet?

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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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