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Communication/Dyslexia Interview Guide September 29, 2025 1 Demographic Questions 1. What is your age? 2. What is your gender? 3. Which country do you reside in? 4. What is your educational level? 5. Have you been diagnosed with dyslexia? If so, at what age did this happen? 6. How often do you experienced discrimination or stigmatization due to dyslexia? 7. What type of special support or resources to deal with dyslexia in the workplace? 8. How would you describe your communication skills at work? 9. What are the biggest challenges you face in software development owing to dyslexia? 10. What strategies do you adopt to deal with the challenges in reading, writing, or understanding information in your work? 11. How do you feel about dyslexia in a professional context? 12. What are the differences in the way your dyslexia affects your work compared with your nondyslexic colleagues? 13. How often do you miss out on opportunities because of your dyslexia? 14. Do you have any suggestions for improving the working environment of people with dyslexia in the software development field? 2 Communication Questions 1. How do you feel about communication between you and your team members? 2. What communication channels do you use to communicate? 3. How do you communicate changes in tasks? 4. How do you feel expressing your opinion to your colleagues? 5. Have you ever felt like people thought you were rude or ignorant? (a) yes: How does this affect you? (b) no: Do you adopt some strategies? 6. How do handle the language barriers with your team members? 7. How do you express your feeling? 1
8. What are the difficulties to understanding requirements and tasks assigned to you? 9. How much do you think your communication affects your work? 10. How do you feel after you receive comments from others about your way of speaking? 11. Do you think the way you communicate reflects in your mood? 12. Do you feel a sense of exclusion in your company, and do you think it’s related to how you speak? (a) yes: How does this affect you? (b) no: Has it always been like that or you found some way to adapt? 13. How often do you think before express what you feel? 14. How much does daily meetings help in task alignment and prevent communication failures? 15. Do you think there is a lack of collectivism among the members of your team in your company? (a) yes: What are the main factors that influence this? (b) no: How close do you are with your teammates? 16. How do you behave inside and outside the company? 17. Do you feel isolated? 18. How often do your team avoid/exclude you because of your way of speaking? 19. How close are you to your colleagues? 20. How important do you think communication skills are? 21. How often do you you make things happen, instead of waiting? 22. In your company, do you talk about non-work-related topics? (a) yes: What type of topics do you talk about? (b) no: Do you miss this kind of dialogue? Page 2
