#CripTheVote Disability Issues Survey, Winter 2018

February - March, 2018

Thanks for visiting this anonymous, confidential survey. Please answer the questions as honestly as you can, based on your current personal views and opinions about disability policy issues. Your responses will help identify more clearly what the disability community's concerns and priorities are. We will publish the results of this survey in the Spring, and share them as widely as possible with the disability community, and with candidates in the 2018 U.S. Midterm Elections.

This document can’t be edited online, but you can download it as a Word document, which you can add your answers to and email back to us at: apulrang@charter.net.

What is #CripTheVote? ...

#CripTheVote is an ongoing Twitter-based conversation about disability in electoral politics and policy. You can learn more about #CripTheVote at these links:

Looking Ahead: The Future of #CripTheVote.

Interview with Alice Wong, Gregg Beratan, and Andrew Pulrang, on how #CripTheVote started.

There's also a #CripTheVote Blog, with an archive of all past chats and updates on future events, and a #CripTheVote Facebook Page.

An explainer on why we use "#CripTheVote".

Questions

1. Please rank the following disability policy areas in priority order, from 1 = highest priority, to 10 = lowest priority. You can only assign one unique priority number to each topic.

__ Employment

__ Long term care / personal assistance

__ Health care

__ Accessibility

__ Benefits

__ Civil rights / discrimination

__ Transportation

__ Housing

__ Education

__ Assistive technology / adaptive equipment

2. Please choose 5 out of the following 15 disability policy ideas you feel are most important.

__ Ban or phase out sheltered workshops.

__ Ban or phase out payment of sub-minimum wage.

__ Strengthen voting rights and accessibility.

__ Change Social Security to reduce or eliminate work disincentives.

__ Strengthen enforcement of accessibility standards.

__ Eliminate the Social Security “marriage penalty.”

__ Defend Social Security and Medicaid / Medicare against political attacks.

__ Hire and appoint more disabled people to government and policy-making positions.

__ Review and reform guardianship laws relating to people with disabilities.

__ Increase the federal share of Special Education costs.

__ Require disability awareness training for law enforcement.

__ Strengthen the rights of parents with disabilities.

__ Pass the Disability Integration Act to promote independent living instead of nursing homes.

__ Eliminate use of physical restraint and isolation in public schools.

__ Strengthen enforcement of “most integrated setting” regulations in Special Education.

3. Please add up to 5 new or additional disability issues that have recently become more important since this survey was first conducted in early 2016.

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4. What best describes your interest in disability?

__ I have a disability

__ There is a disabled person(s) in my family

__ I have a disability and disabled person(s) in my family

__ I work in the disability field

__ Just interested