Workplace
Accommodation Survey
by John Goldtwaite
Georgia Tech's Center
for Assistive Technology and Environmental Access (CATEA) is recruiting
people with disabilities to participate in a series of projects
that are being conducted at Georgia Tech. CATEA's Rehabilitation
Engineering Research Center (RERC) on Workplace Accommodation is
doing research about the barriers people with disabilities encounter
in the workplace.
The purpose of this study is to make workplaces more accessible
for people with disabilities. Your role is to provide us with information
on your experiences in the workplace and your perspective on the
accessibility of workplace products and services. There is no direct
benefit to you for participating in this study, but it will provide
the RERC with valuable information that will be used to improve the
accessibility of the workplace. The survey has 45 questions and takes
about 30 minutes to complete. It asks questions about you and the
nature of your disability. We are not asking about medical conditions,
but about functional abilities such as seeing, hearing, moving, and
manipulating things. A number of questions are about functional limitations
and the difficulties you encounter at work because of these limitations.
Finally, we ask about accommodations you have received and those
you have requested.
You begin the survey by
using your computer to get on the Internet and go to our website:
http://www.workplacererc.org/R1/CAN.php. This takes you to the
sign up form for the Consumer Advisory Network. After you have
filled out the form click on the "Submit Form" button.
This will take you to a consent form for the survey. It explains
the purpose of the study, its benefits and risks. Please read the
form completely. When you have read the consent form, click on the "I
Consent" button at the bottom of the page. That will take you
to the first page of the survey. We would appreciate it if you could
take the survey before September 30. If you have problems with the
survey, please email me at john.goldthwaite@catea.org or call 404
894-0563, John Goldtwaite Senior Research Scientist Georgia Tech.
