Effects of short-term awareness interventions on children's attitudes toward peers with a disability.
The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of two awareness activities on children's attitudes towards peers with a disability. The Children's Attitudes towards Peers with Disability scale including cognitive, behavioral and emotional subscales was administered before and after two types of short-term interventions. The first included 75 children from grades 7-9, who actively participated in the workshop simulating movement activities. The second intervention included 121 students of the 10th grade, who observed their peers participating in a wheelchair-basketball activity together with elite wheelchair-basketball players. Results indicated significant effects in the cognitive and behavioral domains. Post-test findings confirmed that intervention bridged the difference in the cognitive domain observed between those with and without previous contact at pretest.
Hutzler
Yeshayahu
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Zinman College for Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Netanya 42902, Israel. shayke@wincol.macam98.ac.il
Fliess-Douer
Osnat
O
Avraham
Ayelet
A
Reiter
Shunit
S
Talmor
Rachel
R
D000293:Adolescent; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001364:Awareness; D002648:Child; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D004493:Education / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group