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Attitudes of students with regular development towards students with developmental difficulties

Inclusive education is one of the most significant challenges and initiatives in education faced by educational communities around the world (Sharma, Forlin and Loreman, 2008, according to Martan, 2018, according to Juraić, 2020). The education system of the Republic of Croatia has the same problems. In this research it is important to explain what attitude is. Attitude is an acquired tendency to react either positively or negatively towards persons, objects, or situations outside of us, or towards our own characteristics, ideas, or actions (Zvonarević, 1985). Students with disabilities are not always well accepted by their peers (Igrić et al., 2015), which can result in rejection, and isolation. The aim of this work is to examine the attitude of 36 5th grade students towards students with disabilities, as well as their willingness to act towards them who are educated in special classes at the Eugen Kumičić Elementary School, Slatina. It was created anonymous questionnaire with 13 questions and the students' task is to express opinion with the answers YES or NO. The Results show the positive attitudes of students towards students with disabilities: 92% of respondents think they could be friends with a student with disabilities, and 94% of the sample can imagine playing with them. The answers show that 100% of the respondents would protect students from a special department and think that they can be successful in certain activities. According to this, we can say that positive attitudes are the main prerequisites for successful inclusion.

attitudes, students with disabilities, students with regular development, inclusion

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