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Handicaps and the Handicapped in Ile-Ife, Nigeria: A Socio-Cultural Dimension

MANY AUTHORS have been concerned with certain aspects of the handicapped in different parts of the world particularly in reference to the attitudes of people toward these handicapped. (Donaldson, 1980; Stephens and Braun, 1980; Westervelt and Mckinney, 1980; Ojefeitimi and Oyefeso 1980). Most of these studies tend to reveal an attitude of rejection concerning these handicapped, and the extent of the rejection tended to vary with the social characteristics of the people. Richardson et al. (1961) noted that children preferred other children without impairments to those who are impaired. The fact that the attitudes toward the disabled are typically less favourable than attitudes toward the non-disabled is not a recent phenomenon. For historically, the handica ped have always been treated as inferiors. Bender (1970) claimed that malformed babies in Athens and Sparta were exposed on a mountainside to die.