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Bossaert, Goele; Petry, Katja – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
The Chedoke-McMaster Attitudes towards Children with Handicaps Scale (CATCH) has been developed to measure the attitudes of children toward peers with disabilities. The present study aims to evaluate the factorial validity of the CATCH in a sample of 2396 students in 7th grade, including 179 students with disabilities and 2217 typically developing…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Factor Analysis, Test Validity, Measures (Individuals)
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Ahlborn, Lindsey J.; Panek, Paul E.; Jungers, Melissa K. – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2008
Studies of the perception of persons with intellectual disabilities have primarily focused on the evaluator's peers without specific reference to age or gender of the target person with intellectual disability. Using the semantic differential technique (assessments based on three independent factors: evaluation, activity and potency), 320 college…
Descriptors: College Students, Student Attitudes, Mental Retardation, Semantic Differential
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Hsiao, Mei-Ni; Tseng, Wan-Ling; Huang, Hui-Yi; Gau, Susan Shur-Fen – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2013
This study examined the associations between children's and adolescents' autistic-like social deficits and school and social adjustment as well as the moderating roles of age and gender in these associations. The sample consisted of 1321 students (48.7% boys) in Grade 1 to Grade 8 from northern Taiwan. Children's and adolescents' autistic-like…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Females, Program Effectiveness, Adolescents
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Brown, Ted; Mu, Keli; Peyton, Claudia G.; Rodger, Sylvia; Stagnitti, Karen; Hutton, Eve; Casey, Jackie; Watson, Callie; Hong, Chia Swee; Huang, Yan-hua; Wu, Chin-yu – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2009
Introduction: Students who are enrolled in professional education programs such as occupational therapy may have inherent attitudes towards the future clients they work with. These attitudes may be influenced by the level of their professional education as well as cultural values of their country of origin. Purpose: The purpose of the study was to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Disabilities, Foreign Countries, Social Values
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Li, Huijun; Morris, Richard J – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2007
The purpose of the present study was to examine self-reported fears and related anxieties in children and adolescents (7-18 years of age) having learning disabilities (LD) or mild mental retardation (MIMR), and whether these fears and related anxieties differ based on gender and age. Students responded to two well validated instruments, The…
Descriptors: Interaction, Adolescents, Age Differences, Learning Disabilities
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Wolters, Nina; Knoors, Harry E. T.; Cillessen, Antonius H. N.; Verhoeven, Ludo – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2011
This study examined associations of communicative skills, social behavior, and personality with acceptance and popularity as a function of hearing status, gender, and educational setting. Participants were 87 deaf and 672 hearing early adolescents of 52 6th grade classrooms in mainstream and special education. Acceptance varied as a function of…
Descriptors: Prosocial Behavior, Antisocial Behavior, Females, Creative Activities
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Beck, Ann R.; Bock, Stacey; Thompson, James R.; Bowman, Linda; Robbins, Stacey – Research in Developmental Disabilities: A Multidisciplinary Journal, 2006
Two videotapes were created of a child communicating with a voice output augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) device. In one the child communicated using formal English only and in the other the child communicated using formal English and age appropriate informal terms. Children in grades 4 and 5 viewed either the formal English only…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Grade 5, Gender Differences