Attitudes of Physically Handicapped Children toward Physical Education

Abstract

Abstract An attitude scale was devised to sample attitudes of orthopedically and neurologically handicapped secondary school children toward physical education. Two additional instruments, a self-rating scale and personal questionnaire, were used as criteria by which the validity of the attitude inventory could be checked. The three instruments were administered to two groups of orthopedically and neurologically handicapped children, one of which participated in a regular physical education program, while the other took part in an adapted physical education program. It was discovered that there was a significant difference in attitudes between means of the two groups. Children in the regular physical education program had a more favorable attitude toward physical education than those in the adapted physical education program. It was also found that the attitude scale was a highly reliable instrument when used with these children. There was a significant relationship between the attitude inventory score an...