I agreed with what you said I don't know the purpose of the survey tried to
do. Whether you are sighted or Blind counselor, when you are in field meeting
Blind individual, your attitude needs to believe Blind person is capable as
sighted people otherwise your work will not be effective. The theory behind is
if you don't believe what you market your customers, how can you convince
customers or employers the Blind person is a qualified applicant as other
sighted people!
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-------- Original message --------From: Joanne Laurent <joanne@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 11/3/17 5:41 PM (GMT-06:00) To: gambrose@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
bjlejeune@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, visionrehabtherapist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx,
'OrientationAndMobility'
<orientationandmobility-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject:
[visionrehabtherapist] Re: Final Reminder: Unconscious attitudes about people
who are blind
The survey does seem a bit odd. All it did was try to program me into believing
blind and negative go together and sighted and positive go together. If I hit
anything different than associating blind and negative I got the red X and was
forced to change my answer to put blind on the negative side. In the pictures
the sighted people were all happy and good looking and the blind people—not so
much. Would love to know how they are making attitude determinations based on a
study that forces only one answer. Not once was I allowed to choose an answer.
Very strange. From: visionrehabtherapist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:visionrehabtherapist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Grace ;
Ambrose-Zaken
Sent: Friday, November 3, 2017 12:16 PM
To: bjlejeune@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; visionrehabtherapist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx;
'OrientationAndMobility'
Subject: [visionrehabtherapist] Re: Final Reminder: Unconscious attitudes about
people who are blind Hi BJ:I took the survey and found out that I have a
“strong preference for sighted over blind”. However, I am not clear that typing
a key on a keyboard can correctly or incorrectly say so much about a
respondent. For one real reason: I feel I was forced to say the images of those
who were not using a cane were sighted- and that preconceived notion made me
angry. I was angry while I took the test that somehow my manual dexterity would
determine my inner, darkest me – . How can a study of attitudes about blindness
start off on such a bad note and then not impact the results??Also, would you
be able to elaborate on this study methodology? My career has been to teach
grad students how to listen and treat their customers with visual impairment
like human beings they are. My invention the toddler cane comes from knowing
that these little beings are doing remarkably well and can really blossom when
they finally get consistent 2-steps of tactile warning. What is the point of
this survey? In the end, I hope you can convince me that there is a benefit-
that somehow these underlying inability to type P and I quickly enough on
images negatively impacts the lives of people I actually interact with?? I
have hired and currently have more or at least, equal number of adjunct
professors who are visually impaired as sighted. Actively recruited blind
students into my program? I don’t feel this study makes any sense at all. What
is the definition of preference and since it was capable and incapable words-
am I to believe I find blind people incapable? From:
visionrehabtherapist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:visionrehabtherapist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of LeJeune, B.J.
Sent: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 10:06 AM
To: visionrehabtherapist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [visionrehabtherapist] Final Reminder: Unconscious attitudes about
people who are blind Good Morning Everyone, We would like to remind you of our
invitation to participate in a research study being conducted by the NRTC on
Blindness and Low Vision to determine whether employers have different implicit
(or unconscious) attitudes about people who are blind compared to professionals
who work with this population. We have already collected data from a sample of
more than 400 employers, and 125 blindness professionals, but we need to
collect data more from blindness professionals. Specifically, we are looking
for sighted professionals who provide direct services to people who are blind
or visually impaired. Your participation would involve answering four multiple
choice questions and completing a picture and word sorting task. The picture
and word sorting task was designed to measure sighted person’s implicit
attitudes about the competence of people who are blind, so vision is required
for participation in this study. The entire process should take 10 minutes or
less. What’s in it for you? You get to learn your own personal implicit
attitudes about people who are blind (an interpretation of your results will
appear at the end), and, if requested, we will send you a copy of the results
of the overall study when it is ready. We can also enter you into a drawing to
win a $100 gift card, which will be provided to one randomly selected
participant. Note that all of your responses will be anonymous, so we will not
be able to connect your test results with your name. If you want the overall
study results sent to you or to be entered into the drawing for the gift card,
you will provide your contact information in a separate survey. To participate,
follow this link: https://www.research.net/r/NRTC_IAT The survey will only be ;
available through November 12, so please participate now if you haven’t
already. It will require access to a keyboard. Thank you! If you have any
questions about this study, contact Michele McDonnall
(m.mcdonnall@xxxxxxxxxxx). This study is approved under IRB-17-255 by
Mississippi State University. If this research sounds interesting to you,
please consider applying for one of our open positions:
http://blind.msstate.edu/about-us/employment/ We are always looking for people ;
who have knowledge about and an interest in people who are blind or visually
impaired. Thanks, BJ B. J. LeJeune, CRC, CVRTNational Research and Training
Center on Blindness and Low VisionP. O. Box 6189Mississippi State, MS 39762 P:
662-325-2694F: 662-325-8989 bjlejeune@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
