[games_access] workplace diversity question

[hinn at uiuc.edu]

Yeah clinical depression is considered a mental illness, 
along with bipolar depression (also called manic 
depression). 

I wondered about having "mental illness" on there but I 
think it helps people see that we aren't talking about other 
cognitive disorders. This prevents someone, say, with 
depression from putting down cognitive disorder, which would 
skew the results.

I like the wording as well and I like the "yes, but prefer 
not to specify" answer. We should maybe stay consistant then 
and use the same wording in the SIG's gamer servey. 
Hopefully with the gamer survey you are heading up, we'll 
have more people specify disability areas. It's exciting to 
have two surveys going -- the IGDA one will help give us a 
rough idea of how many people with disabilities are in the 
workplace.

Michelle

---- Original message ----
>Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 11:03:18 -0400
>From: Reid Kimball <rkimball at gmail.com>  
>Subject: Re: [games_access] workplace diversity question  
>To: IGDA Games Accessibility SIG Mailing List 
<games_access at igda.org>
>
>Never heard of depression as a mental illness (might be 
me), but other
>than that, it didn't bother me and was easy to understand. 
We have a
>similar question on our survey and I like the wording this 
question
>has better than ours.
>
>-REid
>
>On 7/2/05, michelle hinn <hinn at uiuc.edu> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> The IGDA is about to conduct a workplace diversity survey 
and disabilities
>> will be a part of that survey. I've run the following 
question by some
>> colleagues of mine and none of them have any issues with 
the way the
>> question is posed. Would you all take a moment and look 
over the wording of
>> this question (and the answer choices!) and let me know 
if you have any
>> re-wording suggestions and/or additional concerns? Please 
do this by July 5
>> so that we can make sure that we get our input back to 
the IGDA as soon as
>> possible. Thanks!
>> 
>> Here's the question:
>> 
>> "Have you been medically diagnosed with and/or consider 
yourself as a person
>> with a disability in ANY of the following ways? (you can 
select more than
>> one)"
>> 
>> [] Deaf or hard of hearing
>> [] Blind or partially sighted
>> [] Mobility impaired (eg, paraplegia, quadriplegia, 
cerebral palsy, ALS,
>> etc)
>> [] Mental illness (eg, depression, schizophrenia, etc)
>> [] Cognitive disorder (eg, dyslexia, ADD/HD, learning 
disability, autism,
>> etc)
>> [] Yes, but decline to specify
>> [] Other
>> [] No
>> 
>> Thanks everyone!
>> Michelle
>> Chair, IGDA Game Accessibility SIG
>> 
>> 
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