The effectiveness of a training mentoring program in adjusting the attitudes of normal students in late childhood towards their peers with special needs in integration schools.

Document Type : Original Article

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Associate Professor, Department of Special Education, Umm Al-Qura University

Abstract

The current research aims to modify the attitudes of the normal students in the late childhood stage towards their peers with special needs in integration schools. The sample of the study consisted of 20 student in the late childhood stage who were divided into 10 students as an experimental group and another 10 as a control group. A measure of normal students' attitudes toward people with special needs was applied, the training program and the primary data collection form The results of the study indicated that there are statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the experimental group and the control group in the dimensional measurement on the scale of trends towards people with special needs for the benefit of the experimental group. For the benefit of telemetry, there are also no statistically significant differences between the mean scores for the post and telemetry of the experimental group on the scale of trends towards people with special needs.

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