Question

how few schools in Turkey bridging the gap between children without disabilities and those with disability
(tenny grey)​

Answer 1

Schools in Turkey bridging the gap between children without disabilities and those with disabilities in the following way:

• The major barriers to inclusive educational settings, such as inadequate educational infrastructure, overcrowded classrooms, lack of educational professionals and lack of collaboration among professionals, insufficient pre-service and in-service training programs, as well as negative attitudes towards inclusion.

•  However, in recent years, the main problem for students with ID in inclusive educational settings is the transformation from full inclusion to segregated settings within mainstream general education schools, even though full inclusion was highlighted in Article 23 of the Special Education Services Regulation of  Turkey (SESRT, 2006, amended 2012). Research shows that in Turkey, students.

• with other disabilities (e.g. visual, hearing, orthopedic impairments) are likely to be educated in regular classrooms with typically developing peers. The number of students in special education classes has been increasing in the last two academic years (Ministry of National Education,  MoNE, 2011/12; 2012/13). This situation is an indicator of a contradictory approach
• Another obstacle to the full participation of students with ID in educational  settings is poverty as an external factor.
• According to a World Report on Disability  (World Health Organization, WHO, 2011), one of the main challenges to providing  effective support services for parents of students with disabilities in developing  countries are poverty that increases the risk of poor quality of life.