ATTITUDES OF PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITHOUT DISABILITY TOWARDS INCLUSIVE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY

Dev Nandan Kumar; Jitender Kumar

Volume : IX, Issue : V, May - 2020

ATTITUDES OF PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITHOUT DISABILITY TOWARDS INCLUSIVE EDUCATION OF CHILDREN WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY

Dev Nandan Kumar, Jitender Kumar

Abstract :

Inclusive education can be successful, only through co–operation from teachers, students, parents and community. Most important is acceptance from peer group. This is dependent on the parents of non disabled children. The present investigation is a descriptive research study. The data was collected from 50 parents of nondisabled children attending schools. The parents were asked to give their responses on a questionnaire which was consisting of 30 items under three domains namely attitude of social development, Academic development and peer interaction. In the present study, the investigator has gathered data using the survey method. Mean score of social development is 6.5 (65%), academic development is 6.66 (66.6%) and peer interaction is 6.02 (66.9%). Over all mean score is 19.18. (Percentile .66.1%). The result reveals that the positive attitude is n better than negative that is 43.9 % have been found. The finding if this research suggest that attitudes can be changed for the better than and that with appropriate support students and educators will show an increase in acceptance of middle school students with a disability.