A National Study of Youth Attitudes toward the Inclusion of Students with Intellectual Disabilities

By G. Siperstein, Robin Parker, Jennifer Norins Bardon, K. Widaman. 2007

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Effective Educational Inclusion of Students on the Autism Spectrum (2011, unknown): “A recent study examined peer perceptions of students with intellectual disabilities in different contexts (Siperstein et al. 2007) and found that peers were more likely to support the inclusion of children with disabilities in nonacademic classes as compared to more typically academic subjects such…”
The psychometric evaluation of a questionnaire to measure attitudes towards inclusive education (2012, result): “As shown in other attitude studies (Avramidis and Kalyva 2007; Balboni and Pedrabissi 2000; Siperstein et al. 2007), experience with children with SEN is found to be a variable, which positively influences people’s attitudes.”
Which variables relate to the attitudes of teachers, parents and peers towards students with special educational needs in regular education? (2012, background): “Besides the influence of the SEN type on attitudes, several other variables have been related to attitudes, like age of parents (Balboni and Pedrabissi 2000), gender of peers (Nowicki 2006; Opdal, Wormnaes, and Habayeb 2001; Siperstein et al. 2007) and teacher training (Batsiou et al. 2008).”