Perception and Attitude of Teachers towards the Inclusion of Students with Hearing Disabilities

Abstract

The aim of this study is to demonstrate the attitudes and perceptions of teachers regarding the educational inclusion of students with hearing disabilities. The study sample consisted of 128 teachers from the Canary Islands, of which 72 worked in ordinary centers and 56 in Ordinary Centers for Preferential Educational Attention for Hearing Disability (COAEPHD). A quantitative Citation: Pérez-Jorge, D.; Rodríguez-Jiménez, M.d.C.; Ariño-Mateo, E.; Sosa-Gutiérrez, K.J. Perception and Attitude of Teachers towards the Inclusion of Students with Hearing Disabilities. Educ. Sci. 2021, 11, 187. https://doi.org/ 10.3390/educsci11040187 Academic Editors: Luis Miguel Villar Angulo and James Albright Received: 14 March 2021 Accepted: 14 April 2021 Published: 18 April 2021 Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Copyright: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/). cut methodology was used, based on the use of the Questionnaire of Opinions, Attitudes and Competencies of Teachers towards Disability (CACPD). The results of this study do not allow us to affirm that the teachers showed positive attitudes towards inclusion, expressing concern about offering a correct and adequate response to the students with hearing disabilities. They considered that educational inclusion requires important improvements focused on the training and specialization of teachers in the field of inclusion.