Attitudes and Beliefs About Special Education and Students with Disabilities
Name: ______
Date: ______
Sentence Completion Activity #2
Instructions: Please complete each statement. Where applicable, please circle your choice of the bolded terms in the parentheses. Please use your own words to complete the sentence that ends with the trailer ‘because’. You may add in additional sentences after responding to an item, if you wish.
1. As a prospective regular/general education teacher, I think that a student who has a learning disability (should/should not) be educated in the regular/general classroom because...
2. As a prospective regular/general education teacher, I think that a student who has a physical disability (should/should not) be educated in the regular/general classroom because...
3. As a prospective regular/general education teacher, I think that a student who has a hearing impairment (should/should not) be educated in the regular/general classroom because...
4. As a prospective regular/general education teacher, I think that a student who has a visual impairment (should/should not) be educated in the regular/general classroom because...
5. I think that a student who has an intellectual disability (should/should not) be educated in the regular/general classroom because...
6. I think that a student who has a speech and language impairment (should/should not) be educated in the regular/general classroom because...
7. I think that a student who is deafblind (should/should not) be educated in the regular/general classroom because...
8. I think that a student who is Other Health Impaired (OHI) (including students with ADHD) (should/should not) be educated in the regular/general classroom because...
9. I think that a student who has autism (should/should not) be educated in the regular/general classroom because...
10. I think that a student who has Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) (should/should not) be educated in the regular/general classroom because...
11. I think that a student who has a serious emotional disturbance (should/should not) be educated in the regular/general classroom because...
12. I think that a student who has multiple disabilities (should/should not) be educated in the regular/general classroom because...
(activity modified from McNamara (Spears), 2002)
Financial Support for Project IDEAL is provided by the Texas Council for Developmental Disabilities, with Federal funds* made available by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Developmental Disabilities. *$599,247 (74%) DD funds; $218,725 (26%) non-federal resources
The views contained herein do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of the funding agency[s]. No official endorsement should be inferred.
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