An Analysis of Attitude of Parents towards Children with Intellectual Disability

Abstract

The objective of study was to analyze attitude of parents towards their
intellectually disable children and parents of normal children towards their
normal children. The study was descriptive in nature and survey method
was used to collect the data from sample of N=200 (n=100 parents of
intellectually disable children and n=100 parents of normal children) from
Faisalabad division of Punjab Province. For the selection of sample the
convenient sampling technique was used. Parental age group was 26-55
years, either mother or fathers were included in the sample based on the
availability and children age group was among 6-15 years. Parents
belonged to different residential areas and have different level of
education. Index of parental attitude (IPA) was used to collect the data.
Statistical analysis of the collected data showed that there is significant
difference in the parental attitude among parents of intellectually disabled
children and parents of normal children. There is no significant difference
in the parental attitude of fathers and mothers towards their intellectually
disabled children. There is no significant difference in the parental attitude
towards intellectually disabled children on the basis of age of parents.
There is significant difference in the parental attitude towards
intellectually disabled children on the basis of their education.