Direct Intervention to Modify Attitudes toward the Handicapped by Community Volunteers: The Learning about Handicaps Programme.

Leyser, Yona; And Others

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ERIC Number: EJ342145

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1986

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Direct Intervention to Modify Attitudes toward the Handicapped by Community Volunteers: The Learning about Handicaps Programme.

Leyser, Yona; And Others

Educational Review, v38 n3 p229-36 1986

Describes a program planned and implemented by community volunteers to facilitate the development of positive attitudes toward the disabled. The program was implemented over one semester in five public schools. The article discusses variables that contributed to the success of the program as well as some of the limitations of attitude change research. (Author/CT)

Descriptors: Attitude Change, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Disabilities, Elementary Education, Grade 4, Grade 5, Intervention, Mainstreaming, Peer Acceptance, Public Schools, Rural Population, Social Attitudes, Volunteers

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive

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Language: English

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