Title :

Teachers’ attitudes toward the inclusion of students with autism spectrum disorder: Impact of students’ difficulties

Author(s) :

Jury, Mickaël [Auteur]
Activité, Connaissance, Transmission, éducation [ACTé ]
Perrin, Anne-Laure [Auteur]
Psychologie : Interactions, Temps, Emotions, Cognition (PSITEC) - ULR 4072 [PSITEC]
Desombre, Caroline [Auteur]
Psychologie : Interactions, Temps, Émotions, Cognition (PSITEC) - ULR 4072
Rohmer, Odile [Auteur]
Laboratoire de Psychologie des Cognitions [LPC]

Journal title :

Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Abbreviated title :

Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders

Volume number :

83

Pages :

101746

Publisher :

Elsevier BV

Publication date :

2021-05

ISSN :

1750-9467

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences cognitives

English abstract : [en]

Background Students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are less included within mainstream educational systems. We argued that teachers’ attitudes toward their inclusion represent a key factor to understand this issue. ...
Show more >Background Students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are less included within mainstream educational systems. We argued that teachers’ attitudes toward their inclusion represent a key factor to understand this issue. Based on previous research showing that teachers are frequently reluctant to include them in mainstream education, we hypothesized that teachers’ attitudes could be predicted by the specific difficulties faced by these students. Method One thousand and sixty-four teachers were asked to express their attitudes toward the inclusion of students with ASD in an online questionnaire. The co-occurring difficulties that students with ASD could face were experimentally manipulated through brief information depicting specific set of difficulties. Results Teachers expressed more positive attitudes toward the inclusion of students with ASD with no difficulties, in comparison with those with behavioral difficulties, behavioral and cognitive difficulties, or those for whom difficulties were not specified – the control condition. Unexpectedly, teachers were not more positive regarding the inclusion of students with ASD with no difficulties in comparison with those with cognitive difficulties. Conclusions Without specific information, it seems that teachers spontaneously associated ASD with behavioral difficulties and that teachers’ attitudes were the most negative for students facing such difficulties (regardless of the presence or absence of cognitive difficulties). Nonetheless, by also suggesting that attitudes toward the inclusion of these students can be positive, these results seem to corroborate that the use of broader categories like “students with ASD” could be discussed.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Administrative institution(s) :

Université de Lille

Collections :

• Psychologie : Interactions, Temps, Émotions, Cognition (PSITEC) - ULR 4072

Research team(s) :

Education & Société

Submission date :

2022-04-29T15:01:04Z
2022-05-04T10:15:41Z