The Attitudes of Teachers Towards Integrating Students with Intellectual Disability in Regular Schools in Romania

The study investigates the structural differences, under quantitative and qualitative aspect, between the attitudes toward children with intellectual disability and the teachers in the normal school and special school. The method used is the Attitude Inventory towards the intellectual disability (Mental Retardation Attitude Inventory - MRAI-R, revised, Antonak and Harth, 1994). This tool allows defining the attitudes of the subjects regarding the integration of persons / pupils with intellectual disability into the school and social environment. The importance of the research lies in the fact that, by knowing the attitudes of the teachers, it might, subsequently, contribute effectively to change them, so as to optimize the therapeutic intervention to students with intellectual disability.