Bruce Social Participation Questionnaire – BSPQ

Extent of Social Participation in Schools with Hearing Students (Options: None, Commute, Limited, Comparable with Hearing, Very Active)

Extent of Social Participation at Work (Lunch Hour, Recreation Program) (Options: None, Limited, Sometimes, Often)

Extent of Social Participation in Community (Options: None, Sports, PTA, Church, Projects w/ Community, Formal Neighbors Projects, Entertainment at Home)

Extent to Which Hearing Neighbors Visit in Your Home (Options: Never, Seldom, Occasionally, Often)

Extent to Which You Visit Homes of Hearing Neighbors (Options: Never, Seldom, Occasionally, Often)

Extent of Close Friendships with Hearing (Options: Mainly Hearing People, Oral Deaf, Hearing, Oral and Non-Oral, Hearing and Oral Deaf Only, Oral Deaf, Non-oral Only, Non-oral)

Extent to Which You Have General Activities with Hearing (Options: Extensive, Some, Limited, Seldom, None)

With Whom Did You Marry (Options: Hearing, Hard of Hearing, Clark Alumni, Orally trained Deaf, Non-oral, Single)

Attitude toward Sign Language (Options: Don't use it, Seldom use it, Occasionally use it, Frequently use it)

Adequacy of Speech (Options: Seldom, Limited to the extent that it was inadequate in public, Speech is a constant asset at work, school, in community)

Adequacy of Lip Reading (Options: Inadequate in Most Situations, Hesitate to Depend Completely on Lip Reading in Public, Occasional Difficulty in Public)

How Do You Communicate at Home? (Options: Pure Oral, Oral plus gestures, Oral, gestures, signs, Signs and gestures)

How do you communicate at work or school? (Options: Pure Oral, Oral plus notes, Oral plus note plus gestures, Gestures and notes, Signs, notes and gestures)

Dependency of Speech in Vocational Activities (Options: Could not hold present position if I couldn't speak; Changes would be required, probably at a loss in salary; Speech valuable but not essential)