Abstract
The aim of this study was to examine the attitudes and views of parents of kindergarten children with and without special needs for inclusive education. Two hundred and eleven (211) parents (167 mothers and 44 fathers) from Crete, Greece, complete a questionnaire. This questionnaire consisted of 15 closed type and 2 open type questions, as well as of 7 questions to which the parents responded using a 4-point Likert scale, ranged from strong agreement to strong disagreement. The analysis of the data showed that parents of kindergarten children with typically developing children responded positively towards inclusive education.
Particularly results showed that:
(a) well-educated parents were more positive towards inclusion than
less-educated,
(b) most of the parents believed that typically developing
children would not imitate undesirable behaviours from children with
disabilities, and
(c) parents of non-handicapped children were more
concerned when their children were included in settings where children with
severe developmental disabilities were educated.
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