Positive and negative parental attitude towardschildren with special needs not only cause related emotional states in thesechildren, their parents and other family members, but also can affect, bothdirectly and indirectly, the process of tracking and receiving the educational,counseling, and rehabilitation ...
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Positive and negative parental attitude towardschildren with special needs not only cause related emotional states in thesechildren, their parents and other family members, but also can affect, bothdirectly and indirectly, the process of tracking and receiving the educational,counseling, and rehabilitation services. Hence, assessment of parental attitudetowards children with special needs and also presentation of a program forimprovement of the attitude are of great importance. The present research aimsto study the validation and revision of parental attitude towards children withspecial needs. This was a survey research with a descriptive method. Thestatistical population included all the parents with children with specialneeds, who had enrolled their exceptional children in rehabilitation centersand exceptional elementary schools in the educational year 2011-2012. Usingcluster sampling method, 400 subjects were selected. The data were analyzed themethods of descriptive statistics (including mean, standard deviation, and frequencypercentile) as well as inferential methods (including Pearson’s correlation,and confirmatory factor analysis via SPSS and LISREL software). The resultsshowed that the scale of parental attitude towards children with special needswas a reliable and valid scale. Therefore, applying this scale can helpspecialists and researchers in the area of education and rehabilitation toevaluate the parental attitude towards children with special needs