PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Peng, Yan
TI  - Attitudes of parents of child with special educational needs towards inclusive education: a perspective from the Czech Republic
DP  - 2012 Dec 11
TA  - Journal of Exceptional People
PG  - 79--87
VI  - 1
IP  - 2
IS  - 18054978
AB  - The purpose of this study was to identify the attitudes of parents of child with special educational needs to inclusive education. Questionnaire was constructed to obtain needed data and was distributed to parents whose children with special educational needs were educated in regular classrooms in 16 public regular primary schools in Olomouc region of the Czech Republic. Analysis of collected data indicated four main characteristics: firstly, parent respondents admitted the advantages of inclusion; secondly, they expressed low expectation on their exceptional children's development; thirdly, about one third of them agreed disadvantages of inclusion; fourthly, parents expressed neutral attitudes toward special education schools. The study ended with research-based recommendations for future practice.