it is important that Teachers develop helpful attitudes towards children with disabilities, their attitudes play a major roll in how children perceive the teaching/learning or school experience, this can either 'make or break' the child, especially on their first schooling interactions.

in one of my earlier experiences as a teacher, i was placed in a classroom to observe the operations of a senior teacher, who just received a new student with two 'identified' disabilities, the teacher's attitude toward the child was obvious not only to me but also to the child, her interactions with him were very different to those with non disabled children, soon his attitude changed he started to run out of the classroom every time the teacher spoke to him, he threw tantrums and quite often disrupted the class.

 I was soon given my own class and asked to take in this little boy as things were not running smoothly at his other class, at first his disruptive behaviour continued, but as i learnt more about him as an individual and his difficulties, i was able to tailor my lessons to address his needs and gain his trust and respect, soon he merged into the classroom and excelled without being disruptive or engaging in separate activities from his peers.

this experience showed me two sides of the coin on the effect a teachers attitude has on learning