The Positive Attitudes Toward Pupils with Disabilities - - An Important Factor in the Inclusive Education

Abstract

This paper treats the concept of attitudes toward pupils with disabilities. Positives attitudes toward the disabled pupils play a
great role in the inclusive education. The paper aims to measure pupils’attitudes toward their peers with disabilities, as when the pupils
have in their class a disable pupil, as when the pupils have not in their class a disable pupil. The paper aims, also, to examine whether
pupils’ gender and pupils’age have impact on childrens’ attitudes toward their disabled peers. It is used the CATCH test (Chedoke-
McMaster Attitudes Towards Children with Handicaps) for measuring childrens’ attitudes. Pupils of the fifth grade, sixth and seventh
grade of some schools of Shkodra city have completed the CATCH test. There are also, made interviews with the teachers in order to
get their opinions about pupils’ attitudes toward their disabled peers. There are given the appropriate conclusions and suggestions.