[Posted: Mon 23/01/2012 by Deborah Condon www.irishhealth.com]
Most people believe that children with certain disabilities should not attend the same schools as children without disabilities, a new survey has revealed.The survey by the National Disability Authority (NDA), which focused on national attitudes to disability, involved over 1,000 randomly selected adults and more than 250 people with various disabilities.
In the area of education, it found that while many people appeared to have no problem with children with physical disabilities attending schools with other children, a majority did have a problem with children with mental, intellectual, hearing and speech difficulties attending the same schools.
Furthermore, one in four said that they would actually object if a child with a mental health disability was put into the same class as their child, while one in five would object if a child with intellectual disabilities or autism was placed in their child's class.....
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