We found a match
Your institution may have rights to this item. Sign in to continue.
- Title
Peer Acceptance of Learning Disabled Children in the Regular Classroom.
- Authors
Fox, C. Lynn
- Abstract
Mainstreamed handicapped children often experience social rejection by their nonhandicapped peers. To evaluate possible approaches leading to a resolution of peer rejection, 86 low socially accepted learning disabled children in the fourth, fifth, and sixth grades were paired for 8 weeks with 86 high socially accepted, same-sexed, nonhandicapped classmates, in four groups: mutual interest group, cooperative academic task group, Hawthorne Effect/Control group, and classroom control group. Social acceptance ratings of students with learning disabilities by their nonhandicapped peers, paired in the mutual interest group, increased significantly as a function of the intervention. Those in the academic activities group and in the Hawthorne control group did not change. However, ratings of the classroom con trol group showed a lowered acceptance level over time.
- Subjects
STUDENTS with disabilities; SOCIAL acceptance in children; SOCIAL isolation; CHILD psychology; PEER pressure in children; PEOPLE with learning disabilities
- Publication
Exceptional Children, 1989, Vol 56, Issue 1, p50
- ISSN
0014-4029
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/001440298905600108