Parental perception towards inclusive education

The parental perception about inclusion of their child with a disability has received limited attention from researcher. But they are one of the important stakeholders in the field of inclusive education and their perception significantly influences the success of inclusive education. Both the parents of disabled and parents of non disabled perceived inclusive education from their own point of view which is further results from various factor like – teachers competencies , institutional infrastructure , benefits of their children , own value system , interpersonal communication with teachers etc. These factors either create a negative or positive attitude among the parents that’s result in either success or failure of this inclusive design. The purpose of present study is to explore what factors influence the perception of parents towards inclusive and effect of educational qualification and income level on their attitudes towards inclusive education. The present research paper has used descriptive cum survey design as research methodology. The data was collected from 113 parents of disabled children and 150 parents of non-disabled children from 25 elementary schools of Bolangir district of Odisha by self-developed attitude cum perception scale. The major findings of this research paper was parents of disabled children also perceive teacher’s incompetency to teach in inclusive setting is the main hindrance to inclusive education