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Information Analysis ex+ A study was conducted to review and-synthesize the research'literature dealing with attitudes toward handicapped persons in educational settings. The aim was to identify the conditions existing in vocational'education which lessen receptivity on the part of teachers, counselors, and locil administrators toward handicapped students entering programs. It was found that negative attitudes °contain cognitive and affective dimdnsioas which may'be manifested differently. It was also found that the most effeCtive intervention strategies whAch may be aimed at thosefattitude dimensions are information apptoaches and social contact approaches, respectively.. Further, it is probably the affective dimensions of negative. attitudes toward the handicapped that are most funaamental, and the design cf social contact interventions appears to have much potentia