Caregivers' expectancies and behaviors in relationship to young handicapped children were investigated in this paper. Two studies were conducted in an attempt to answer three questions: (1) How will caregivers respond to the young handicapped child? (2) Do the child's stimulus characteristics, such as physical appearance, create biases in…

This study compared the functional capability ratings of slides of children's facial appearances made by three different groups (30 each from special education, nursing, and child development programs) of child-care professional trainees and a comparison group of 30 non child-care graduate and undergraduate students. Subjects were shown 30…

The nature of the relationship between the handicapped child's stimulus characteristics and the expectation held for that child by child care professionals provided the focus of this study. One hundred and twenty subjects viewed photographic slides of 30 children with differing facial characteristics and estimated the capabilities of the…