An analysis of factors related to the attitudes of regular classroom teachers toward mainstreaming mildly handicapped children

Mandell, Colleen J.; Strain, Phillip S.

doi:10.1016/0361-476x(78)90022-x

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“…Exposure to and knowledge about people with disabilities can positively influence attitudes of teachers. That result is consistent with the results of past research (Alberto et al, 1978;Efron & Efron, 1967;Glass & Meckler, 1972;Harasymiw & ~lorne, 1976;Larrivee, 1981;Mandell & Strain, 1978). The implications are clear.…”

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“…(Larrivee & Cook. 1979); and experience (exposure and knowledge) with teaching students with disabilities (Alberto, Castricone, & Cohn, 1978;Efron & Efron, 19~7;Glass & Meckler, 1972;Harasymiw & Horne, 1976; Larrivee, 1981;Mandell & Strain, 1978). Given that teachers' attitudes may vary along many dimensions, it seems imperative to prepare teachers to support the principle of mainstreaming and provide them with instructional strategies (Larrivee, 1986) to use in teaching students with disabifities.…”

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Changing Attmitudes Toward People with Disabilities

Eichinger

Rizzo

Sirotnik

1991

Teacher Education and Special Education: The Journal of the Tea

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for their assistance in conducting this rssaar~h. Requests for raprirats should be made to a Joanne ~~hir~~: FO #~~fF u~~70 University Parkway, Ca.~ifY:~ia State University at San Bernardino, San ~a~ar~ir~, CA 92407-2397. ABSTRACT This study investigated changes in attitudes toward persons with disabilities among students in an introductory special education class (experimental group) and students in a general foundations of education class (control group). A multifaceted intervention consisting of information, contact, and persuasive messages was provided to students in the experimental condition during a 1 0-week course. Results indicated that students in the experimental group had significantly greater improvement in attitudes than students in the control group, as measured by the Attitudes toward Disabled Persons scale. Students in the experimental group reported that contact was significantly more influential in changing their attitudes than either information or persuasive messages.Since 1977, PL 94-142 has guaranteed students with disabilities the right to a free and appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment. For many students, the least restrictive environment will be mainstreamed classes. Although many factors influence the assimilation of students with disabilities into mainstreamed classes, one key factor is likely to be the attitudes of educators toward teaching students with disabilities.

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Changing Attmitudes Toward People with Disabilities

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Sirotnik

1991

Teacher Education and Special Education: The Journal of the Tea

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“…Almost without exception having attended a course on special education has been found to be associated with positive attitudes towards mainstreaming (Harvey & Green, 1984, Mandell & Strain 1978, Stephens & Braun 1980. French and Henderson (1984) showed that attitudes can be modified through training and Leyser and Abrams (1983) reported significant attitude change in 19 regular class teachers following an introductory special education course and practicum.…”

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Mainstreaming: Teachers’ Attitudes when they have no choice about the matter

Harvey¹

1985

The Exceptional Child

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“…Yuker (1988) noted that previous research in this area has produced inconsistent results. While some studies have indicated a negative relationship between attitude and years of experience (Harasymiw & Home, 1975;Mandell & Strain, 1978), Benham (1988) reported that occupational therapy personnel with up to 5 and more than 11 years of practice had the most favorable attitudes. Benham questioned whether the decline in attitude shown in subjects with 6 to 10 years of experience could have been related to feelings of disillusionment or decreased optimism about their clients.…”

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Attitudes of Occupational Therapy Personnel toward Therapists with Disabilities

Elliott¹,

Hanzlik²,

Gliner³

1992

The Occupational Therapy Journal of Research

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This study shows that occupational therapy personnel generally hate farlorable attitudes toward therapists with disabilities, with the exception of those with drug dependency problems and psychiatric disorders. AbstractResponses were analyzed for a social distance scale and questionnaire regarding the attitudes of 106 Registered Occupational Therapists (OTRs) and 98 Certified Occupational 71terapy assistants toward Registered OTRs who were hypothetically diagnosed as disabled according to 20 physical or mental disability categories. Results indicated that occupational therapy personnel generally had favorable attitudes toward peers with disabilities in Deborah L. Elliott, MS. ora, is a pediatric therapist at the Children's Therapy Center,

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An analysis of factors related to the attitudes of regular classroom teachers toward mainstreaming mildly handicapped children

Cited by 35 publications

References 6 publications

Changing Attmitudes Toward People with Disabilities

Changing Attmitudes Toward People with Disabilities

Mainstreaming: Teachers’ Attitudes when they have no choice about the matter

Attitudes of Occupational Therapy Personnel toward Therapists with Disabilities

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