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Reflective Impressions of a Precepted Clinical Experience Caring for People with Disabilities
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Karl, Renee; McGuigan, Denise; Withiam-Leitch, Matthew L.; Akl, Elie A.; Symons, Andrew B. – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2013
There is evidence that early and frequent encounters with people with disabilities can improve medical students' knowledge, skills, and attitudes about disability. As part of a 4-year integrated curriculum in caring for patients with disabilities, third-year medical students ("n" ?=? 144) in a Family Medicine clerkship participated…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Medical Students, Medical Education, Attitudes toward Disabilities
Development of an Instrument to Measure Medical Students' Attitudes toward People with Disabilities
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Symons, Andrew B.; Fish, Reva; McGuigan, Denise; Fox, Jeffery; Akl, Elie A. – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2012
As curricula to improve medical students' attitudes toward people with disabilities are developed, instruments are needed to guide the process and evaluate effectiveness. The authors developed an instrument to measure medical students' attitudes toward people with disabilities. A pilot instrument with 30 items in four sections was administered to…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Factor Analysis, Student Attitudes, Psychometrics
Social Integration in Employment Settings: Application of Intergroup Contact Theory
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Novak, Jeanne A.; Rogan, Patricia M. – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2010
This study used a survey of 106 employment specialists to test the ability of intergroup contact theory to explain social integration outcomes of employees with disabilities. Contact theory suggests that coworkers are more accepting of employees with disabilities if they have sufficient opportunities to interact with them, equal status and…
Descriptors: Employees, Social Integration, Disabilities, Work Environment
"I Didn't Think I Was Going to Like Working with Him, but Now I Really Do!": Examining Peer Narratives of Significant Disability
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Naraian, Srikala – Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2008
Mainstream research that examines relations between students with significant disabilities and their peers continues to assess such relations on the capacity of students with significant disabilities to evoke and sustain them. This article adopts a "disability studies" approach to situate peer relations within the larger classroom context. The…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Peer Relationship, Inclusive Schools, Mainstreaming