Relationship between Children's Attitudes toward and Their Social Acceptance of Mentally Retarded Peers

Abstract

Forty-six intermediate grade students expressed their attitudes toward an unknown mentally retarded student presented in a videotape, and indicated their social acceptance, rejection, or neglect of a mentally retarded peer in their classroom. Children's attitudes toward the videotaped child were related to their sociometric choices of the retarded classmate. (Author/JDD)