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Article: A Comparison of Teachers' Attitudes Toward Their Included Students with Mild and Severe Disabilities.(Statistical Data Included)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Special Education
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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This investigation examined whether teachers' attitudes toward their included students with disabilities differed as a function of the disability's severity. Seventy inclusive classroom teachers nominated three students to prompts corresponding with the attitudes of attachment, concern, indifference, and rejection. Chi-square analyses supported predictions, based on a theory of instructional tolerance and a model of differential expectations, that students with severe or obvious disabilities are significantly overrepresented among teachers' nominations in the indifference category, whereas students with mild or hidden disabilities are significantly overrepresented among ...