The study assessed the effectiveness of a publicity campaign to sensitize people to the needs and concerns of physically disabled people and to promote favorable attitude change. Results indicated that while the visability of the publicity campaign can be considered a modest success, the campaign was ineffective in promoting positive attitude…

Three studies were conducted to examine variables that facilitate or hamper interaction between disabled and able-bodied college students. In study 1, 100 able-bodied Ss completed two adjective checklists identifying socially desirable and undesirable characteristics; a second group of 94 abled-bodied Ss were tested using another set of traits.…

The interaction between wheelchair users and nondisabled college students was investigated in two studies. Results suggest that the response inhibition model best explains interaction difficulties. (Author)

The manual presents an empirically based scoring system to evaluate interactions between college students with physical disabilities and their professors. It specifies 28 situations involving physically disabled students and professors along with 196 reasonably common behaviors in each of these situations (with frequency and social appropriateness…

The manual presents an emperically tested coding system for thoughts concerning interaction with same-sex able-bodied or physically disabled college students. Although the system was developed for use with written thought listing, it may be adapted to in vivo or audiotaped thought listing. Thoughts are coded both for valence (positive, negative)…

The study investigated the nature of appropriate and inappropriate interaction behaviors between 91 college professors (74 with experience teaching disabled students) and 38 physically disabled students. Among findings was that professors who had taught disabled students were more comfortable with such students and interested in teaching them in…

Reports two investigations of the self-efficacy beliefs of students with and without a physical disability. Used the Social Situations Questionnaire, Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons Scale, and the Self-Efficacy Questionnaire for Social Skills to validate the instruments developed for this investigation, the College Interaction Self-Efficacy…

The manual provides an empirically-based coding system to assess the social skills of physically disabled students in wheelchairs and nondisabled college students. A list of 24 frequently occurring social situations in institutions of higher education are listed in rank order; the situations require a response either by physically disabled or able…

In an archival study, the academic outcomes of 653 Dawson College students with and 41,357 without disabilities were compared over a 12 year period starting in 1990 and ending in 2002. Results indicate that students with both physical and learning disabilities had graduation rates that were virtually identical to those of nondisabled students,…

In 1999, a survey was conducted of almost 800 university students with different disabilities across Canada to investigate what computer equipment students used and wanted, how they financed their computer technologies, and why they failed to take advantage of government subsidy programs. Results from the survey indicate many students did not know…