The first part of each question asks you how often something makes it hard for you to communicate. It’s OK if you don’t remember the exact number of times that thing happened. Only think about the times when you had trouble communicating because of that thing.
For example, if the first part of the question is “people don’t give me enough time to process their nonverbal communication,” you would just think about the times when you might have had trouble communicating because people didn’t give you enough time to process.
- If you frequently have trouble because don’t give you enough time to process their nonverbal communication, you would mark “most of the time.”
- If people don’t give you enough time to process their nonverbal communication every now and then, you would mark “some of the time.”
- If you never have trouble with this, you would mark, “none of the time.”
The second part of each question asks you to think about the times when the example made it hard for you to communicate. When it happened, how big of a problem was it for your communication?
For example, if the second part of the question is “people don’t give me enough time to process their nonverbal communication,” you would just think about the times when you might have had trouble communicating because people didn’t give you enough time to process.
- If you are not able to communicate at all when people don’t give you enough time to process their nonverbal communication, you would mark “it totally got in the way.” It is OK to mark this even if it doesn’t happen often. That is because the second part of the question is about how big the problem is, not about how often it happens.
- If you are able to communicate OK (maybe with a little extra effort, or a little less well than you’d like), you would mark, “it got in the way a little bit.”
- If you miss out on a lot when people don’t give you enough time to process their nonverbal communication (for example, by ignoring what you can’t understand and just moving on to the next thing they are communicating), you would mark “it got in the way a lot.”
