Graduate School | Department of Special Education

The Special Education Teacher Training Programme in our university was founded in 1983. This programme has been offered at the Faculty of Education in the Department of Special Education since 1989. Our department provides undergraduate education in Special Education Teacher Programme. In addition, our department has master’s programmes in the areas of Education of the Mentally Disabled, Education of the Hearing Impaired, Education of Gifted Children, Special Education in Early Childhood, and Education of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. There are also PhD programmes in the fields of Education of the Mentally Disabled, Education of the Hearing Impaired and Education of Gifted Children. In addition, there are non-thesis master's programs on Autism Spectrum Disorder in Early Childhood (Distance) and Inclusion Integration Education.

Special education teachers who graduate from the Department of Special Education are employed in public or private special education institutions that are affiliated with the Ministry of Education in Turkey.

In our department, 16 professors, 11 associate professors, nine assistant professors, two lecturers, three doctor research assistants and six rsearch assistants are employed.