Journal of Educational Sciences > Volume 2, No. 1, 1990

Effects of Information in Changing Attitudes toward the Handicapped / Abdul Aziz Elsayed Elshakhs

This study is concerned with effects of information regarding the handicapped in changing attitudes of teachers. university students, school children, and parents towards the handicapped.
Concepts of the handicapping conditions, attitudes towards the handicapped, and information programs which were used in changing these attitudes have been identified. The researcher reviewed previous studies which used information-involving concepts of individual differences, handicapped people and their characteristics, special education and its strategies, etc., in changing the concerned individual's attitudes toward the handicapped.
This information was introduced to them through study courses, training programs, discussion, conferences, video tapes, free readings, and direct contact with the handicapped.
The results indicated that, this kind of information can efficiently be utilized in changing different peopIe's attitudes toward the handicapped in our society.