Of a random sample of 130 college counselors, 81 completed and returned the Yuker Attitudes Toward Disabled Persons Scale and a modified version of the Haring General Information Inventory, a scale which measures knowledge about disabled persons. While the relationship between knowledge and attitudes was not significant (p = .088), there was a tendency for attitudes and knowledge to be related. However, the attitudes are the reverse of those hypothesized, i.e., the greater the knowledge the more unfavorable the attitudes toward the disabled. Seeing disabled persons as different from normal persons may be a negative orientation. Present data raise some question about the validity of that assumption.
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