Abstract of Dr. Yu's Lecture "Relationships between Preschoolers’ Attitudes and Play Behaviors toward Classmates with Disabilities"

As children with disabilities have enrolled in inclusive classrooms, one of the challenges teachers face is to create a classroom community whereby typically developing children understand and accept students with disabilities as peers and friends. To facilitate young children’s positive attitudes toward peers with disabilities, it is important to understand what young children think about their classmates with disabilities and how their ideas and thoughts affect their acceptance of and behaviors toward classmates with disabilities. This presentation will focus on how young children’ attitudes toward peers with disabilities are related to their actual play behaviors with classmates with disabilities in inclusive preschool classrooms.