Insights on the Social Perception of Mentally Disabled Children.

The Aim: The aim of the research is to analyze the social perception of mentally disabled people and of attitudes toward them among teachers, according to certain variables such as subjects' age, gender, type of education and degree of interaction with mentally disabled people, understood as work experience with mentally disabled children.

Material And Methods: A number of 120 teachers (44 men and 76 women) answered to a 26 items of Scale of perceptions and attitudes regarding mentally disabled people investigating the following dimensions: the concept of mental disability, the image of mentally disabled people, integration into society, education. Several variables were taken into consideration.