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Promoting Social Inclusion in High Schools Using a Schoolwide Approach
- Source :
- Inclusion. 5:173-188
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD), 2017.
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Abstract
- This study examines the impact of the Special Olympics Unified Champion Schools program in high schools across the country. Data were analyzed from 2,774 students from 11 high schools implementing the program concerning their perceptions and attitudes toward including students with intellectual disability (ID). Students participating in 1 or more program activities reported increased visibility of and social interactions with students with ID in school. This, in turn, promoted more positive perceptions and attitudes regarding school and classroom inclusion. Participation in different activities had unique effects on students' perceptions of their school's inclusive environment and on their attitudes toward classroom inclusion. These findings support an ecological approach to social inclusion and for structured, schoolwide interventions embedded within normative school contexts.
- Subjects :
- 030506 rehabilitation
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05 social sciences
Champion
Program activities
Psychological intervention
medicine.disease
03 medical and health sciences
Political science
Perception
Intellectual disability
Pedagogy
Ecological psychology
medicine
Normative
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
0305 other medical science
Inclusion (education)
050104 developmental & child psychology
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Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 23266988
- Volume :
- 5
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Inclusion
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........2fcf2636a2070258bd28e104668aec43