Аннотация:The paper deals with a very important problem of parental attitude to children with special needs, the number of which increases every year. The paper notes the importance of a family, due to which the socialization of a child with special needs is carried out, but families are often unprepared for interaction with their disabled children. The paper describes the main characteristics of parental attitude to children with special needs, obtained in Russian and foreign studies. The paper presents the results of an empirical study of parental attitudes of mothers to their preschool children with special needs who attend a specialized educational institution, using various methods. The study established the main life conditions of a family with a child with special needs, showed ambivalence of attitude to a child: hypercontrol with high anxiety towards a child, large emotional distance from him, on the one hand, there is a satisfactory communication with a child, on the other – negative assessment of the past experience of interaction with a child, the presence of anxiety, fears, feelings of guilt for the child’s disorder. The paper presents the results of a comparative analysis of parental attitudes to children with special needs and healthy children. The paper describes a group of mothers who need special psychological and pedagogical support.