ABSTRACT
The previous chapter presented evidence of the negative attitudes professionals and peers may express toward handicapped students. The purpose of this chapter is to examine other factors that may affect the development and maintenance of attitudes toward handicapped and nonhandicapped students. There are many student characteristics, in addition to a handicapping condition, that may be associated with the attitudes teachers and peers develop toward students in their classes. At the same time, different personal and background characteristics of teachers and peers themselves may be determinants of the formation and development of their attitudes.
