Neurodiversity Attitude and Compassion Fatigue among Teachers of Children with Special Needs

The present study aims to bring out the relationship between neurodiversity attitudes of school teachers and the compassion fatigue experienced by them. The sample for the study included school teachers from Kerala with experience in teaching neurodiverse populations. The Neurodiversity Attitudes Questionnaire by Schuck et al. was used to assess the participant’s attitudes towards neurodiversity and the Professional Quality of Life Scale Version 5 by Stamm was used to measure their levels of compassion fatigue. The data was analysed using SPSS. Speraman’s rho was used to compute the correlation between the variables and Mann Whitney U test was used to test the differences among inclusive and special school teachers with respect to the study variables. The results showed that neurodiversity was positively correlated with compassion satisfaction and negatively correlated with burnout. No significant difference was seen between inclusive and special school teachers on neurodiversity attitude and compassion fatigue