An Investigation of Attitudes and Receptivity of Managers in Community Facilities: Toward Integration and Instruction of Persons With Severe Handicaps

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of different conditions on attitudes and preferences of management staff in potential community training sites (i.e., stores/shops, recreation facilities, consumer services, welfare/social services, educational facilities, religious facilities, health facilities, restaurants). Specifically, two surveys were used to measure and compare management staff attitudes toward persons with severe handicaps and their preferences regarding parameters of training students with severe handicaps to use their sites as consumers across four treatment groups: (a) previous experience group (staff with previous exposure to community-based instruction in their site) (N = 20); (b) inservice presentation group (staff who attended informational presentation on community-based instruction and persons with severe handicaps and who had no previous exposure to community-based instruction) (N = 15); (c) previous experience plus inservice presentation group (N = 13); and (d) control group (N = 17).

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Lively, Cornelia

Contributors dc:contributor

• Renzaglia, Adelle

• Education, Special

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8823185

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/69197