The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of culture on attitudes toward disabilities. Bilingual Hebrew, Italian, and Spanish fourth grade students were included in the sample along with black and monolingual comparison groups. The 271 students were tested using a social distance type instrument designed to measure attitudes toward 10 disability groups. Results showed only minimal support for the effect of culture on attitudes toward disabilities and when compared with previous findings suggested a reasonably stable hierarchy of preference existed.
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