Psychologists’ attitudes toward various disabling conditions in children were assessed on three different measures, an Adoption Scale, a Semantic Differential measure, and a Social Distance Scale. Respondents were 61 members of two state psychological associations. Disability-specific and measure-specific attitudes differed from those reported in the literature for other groups.
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