Study of the efficiency of a program to improve the attitude towards disabilities in secondary school students

Abstract

It is known that currently, with the advent of the inclusive school, in our classrooms we have a greater functional diversity in students than in the past, diversity that is not always known and accepted within the normal range. This research aims primarily to determine the extent to which high school students are sensitive to this diversity and if the implementation of a program to improve the attitude of students in general to such diversity produces significant changes to attitudes of acceptance and integration . The sample consists of 91 subjects 3rd of ESO. We assessed the knowledge and attitudes of the students towards diversity using three scales in a pretest and posttest. The scales applied were: 1) “Rating scale terms associated with disabilities”, 2) “Scale of attitudes toward disabled people” G Form. 3) “Scale of attitudes toward disabled people” E Form. The intervention program implemented has been the one: “Tana: A world in which reality changes with emotions and the differences are reversed.” The results show statistically significant differences in some of the variables studied.