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ERIC Number: EJ1214752
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 9
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ISSN: ISSN-1366-8250
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Effects of Short-Term Disability Awareness Training on Attitudes of Adolescent Schoolboys toward Persons with a Disability
Moore, Danielle; Nettelbeck, Ted
Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, v38 n3 p223-231 2013
Background: Schoolboys (N = 156, M age = 13 years) participated in a disability awareness training program that included guest speakers (athletes from the Paralympics and the Special Olympics), a documentary about people with a disability, a disability simulation activity, and factual information about different disabilities. Method: Participants were allocated to a training program or a control condition. Subsequently, control participants completed the training program. Attitudes toward disability were measured by the Chedoke-McMaster Attitudes Towards Children With Handicaps (CATCH) Scale and the scale from the "Just Like You" disability awareness intervention, before and after training. Results: Training improved attitude scores, and gains were retained at one-month follow-up. Conclusions: Disability awareness training that delivered relevant information by involving guest speakers with a disability, included documentary evidence about the lives of people with a disability, and included interactive discussion, was successful. CATCH and "Just Like You" are useful tools for measuring self-reported attitudes about disability.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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