Article
Attitudes of Children with Hearing Loss towards Public Inclusive Education
Author/s | Alegre de la Rosa, Olga María
Villar Angulo, Luis Miguel |
Department | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Didáctica y Organización Educativa |
Publication Date | 2019 |
Deposit Date | 2020-06-17 |
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Abstract | Background: This study raised the following problem: How reliable is the Inclusion for ChildrenandAdolescentsQuestionnaire (ICAQ) when measuring the attitudes of students with hearing loss towards inclusive education (IE) ... Background: This study raised the following problem: How reliable is the Inclusion for ChildrenandAdolescentsQuestionnaire (ICAQ) when measuring the attitudes of students with hearing loss towards inclusive education (IE) in public schools in the Canary Islands? Methods: The sample consisted of 297 students from the province of Gran Canaria, and 137 students from the province of Tenerife,withanaverageageof11yearsold. Anexploratoryfactoranalysisdeterminedthereliability and relevance of ICAQ. Results: The authors found four factors of students’ attitudes towards IE: Familyinvolvementanduseoftechnology,inclusioninthecentre,communicationwithmedicalspecialists, and assessment of the support technology. Conclusion: There were significant differences between the studentswithhearinglossintermsofthefollowingfactors: Inclusioninthecentreandassessmentofthe supporttechnology. Thetotalscoreofstudents’attitudestowardsIEwashigh. Thispieceofresearchis very important for the governing body of any school administration, especially in relation to schools’ educational planning and IE. |
Citation | Alegre de la Rosa, O.M. y Villar Angulo, L.M. (2019). Attitudes of Children with Hearing Loss towards Public Inclusive Education. Education sciences, 9 (3), 244-256. https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci9030244. |
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