title: Performance of normal and disabled Nigerian students on a selective attention task.
abstract: To determine to what extent disabled students may be selected and integrated into the regular schools in Nigeria, normal and blind students were compared for differences in selective attention in a task involving letters and numbers. It was predicted that, because of the sociocultural stigma attached to blindness, normal students (n = 21) would perform better than blind students (n = 21). The hypothesis was substantiated.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001766:Blindness / Q000523:psychology; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009549:Nigeria; D013334:Students; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis