First Encounter with Children with Special Needs and Education Experience of Special Education Teacher Candidates


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ÖZTÜRK H., ŞAHİN V., VURAN S.

ANKARA UNIVERSITESI EGITIM BILIMLERI FAKULTESI OZEL EGITIM DERGISI-ANKARA UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES JOURNAL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION, vol.23, no.3, pp.595-612, 2022 (ESCI) identifier

Abstract

Introduction: Special education teachers are among the important stakeholders who meet the needs of families of a child with special needs ( SN) and support them. The present study aimed to bring together families of children with SN and different needs and special education teacher candidates who wanted to join the practice in the early period within the framework of voluntariness, to ensure that the support needs of families and the practice needs of teacher candidates were met simultaneously, and to reveal the experiences of families and teacher candidates at the end of the process.