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Personnel Staff Attitudes Toward The Employment Of Persons With Physical Disability, Mental Retardation, Or Mental Illness, Karol Ruth Oldenburg
Personnel Staff Attitudes Toward The Employment Of Persons With Physical Disability, Mental Retardation, Or Mental Illness, Karol Ruth Oldenburg
Student Work
This thesis describes a measurement of personnel staff attitudes and perceptions toward the employability of disabled job applicants. More specifically, direct comparisons among three types of disability categories were made using Osgood's Semantic Scaling Method.
Sixty employment professionals of the Lincoln Human Resources Management Association rated a job applicant with physical disability, with mental retardation, and one with mental illness on the basis of 15 paired opposite adjectives. These adjectives described a variety of attributes which could be grouped into evaluative, potency, and activity dimensions of semantic space.
Respondents completed a four-page questionnaire which rated physically disabled, mentally retarded, and …
The Effect Of Computer Use On The Process Writing Of Learning Disabled Students, John W. Hill
The Effect Of Computer Use On The Process Writing Of Learning Disabled Students, John W. Hill
Educational Leadership Faculty Publications
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