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Neslihan Unluol Unal; Muhammed A. Karal; A. Emel Sardohan Yildirim – European Journal of Education, 2025
The 2021 amendment to Türkiye's Special Education Service Legislation marked a milestone by repealing the statement excluding Special Education Vocational School graduates from pursuing higher education. This granted students with intellectual disabilities (ID) the right to attend higher education. However, both schools and universities lack…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Special Education
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Ahmet Bilal Özbek; Alev Girli – Journal of Intellectual Disabilities, 2024
The aim of this study was to investigate the transition of employees with intellectual disabilities to inclusive work environments from sheltered workplaces. The study was conducted in a sheltered workplace in Turkey for people with intellectual disabilities. Data was collected from 71 participants in interviews. Interviews were conducted with…
Descriptors: Sheltered Workshops, Intellectual Disability, Employees, Family Attitudes
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Karal, Muhammed A.; Wolfe, Pamela S. – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2020
Objectives: The purpose was to investigate effects of an in-service training for secondary special education teachers in Turkey. The study was to serve as an initial analysis of the basic knowledge of educators about transition mandates, transition planning and components of quality goals. Methods: Twenty-two teachers of students with DD completed…
Descriptors: Inservice Teacher Education, Special Education Teachers, Students with Disabilities, Developmental Disabilities
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Muhammed A. Karal – Journal of Special Education Preparation, 2021
The first international declaration of inclusive education through the Salamanca Statement (UNESCO, 1994) underlined the importance and necessity of inclusive practices and recommended that all students should benefit from the same educational approaches in the same environment. In addition to that, growth in field applications, published research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Inclusion, Special Education, Educational History
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Ali Kaya; Michael L. Wehmeyer – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Intellectual disability (ID) persists from birth through adulthood and aging. Thus, the support provided to individuals with intellectual disabilities (IwID) in adulthood is essential to increase their self-determination and quality of life. This research aimed to determine how IwID may receive support for education, working life, accommodation,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adults, Intellectual Disability, Cultural Differences
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Ergin, Emel; Bakkaloglu, Hatice – Early Child Development and Care, 2019
In this study, in-classroom transitions in inclusive preschools in Turkey were examined. The study, which was conducted with the descriptive model, was carried out with 30 preschool teachers and 30 children with special needs (CWSN) and 30 children without special needs from these teachers' classes. In order to collect data, Information Form and…
Descriptors: Inclusion, Preschool Education, Preschool Children, Special Needs Students
Kagan, Sharon Lynn, Ed.; Tarrant, Kate, Ed. – Brookes Publishing Company, 2010
Smooth early childhood transitions are key to ensuring positive outcomes for young children the world over--but in today's fragmented early education systems, it's difficult to ensure continuity among programs and services. Early childhood professionals will help change that with this book, the first to propose a comprehensive, practical framework…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, School Readiness, Early Childhood Education, Young Children
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Kargin, Tevhide; Baydik, Berrin; Akcamete, Gonul – International Journal of Special Education, 2004
This study investigated the information needs of parents who have children in transition into public kindergarten. The research group consisted of 94 parents who have children with hearing impairment with ages ranging from 3 to 5. "The Scale Parental Information Needs in Transition to Kindergarten" was used in this study. Parents'…
Descriptors: Information Needs, Hearing Impairments, Foreign Countries, Kindergarten
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Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Models, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education