The main aim of this study was to determine gifted students counseling needs based on their parental views. In addition, it has been examined the interaction age and gender of the gifted children, whether their counseling needs differ based on parents educational level. The research group comprised 606 persons (320 Mothers and 286 Fathers) selected among the parents of gifted students who were registered in 24 Science and Art Center (SAC) located in 12 provinces of Turkey. The data of the study were collected by the Problem Detecting Inventory for Gifted and Information Form. According to findings; parents expressed that they had problems about their childrens personal characteristics, school experiences, and family relationships. The counseling needs of the gifted students varied depending on age and gender interaction. While there was no significant difference in the type of needs based on parental gender, a difference was determined in terms of parents educational level. With this study, the priority needs of the gifted students in Turkey were determined and it was revealed that they differ significantly according to some variables.

The purpose of this study is to clarify the naturalistic instructional approach, to give an outline of the philosophy behind it and to share the approach’s benefits with regard to preschool children with developmental disabilities and their families and teachers by explaining the basic principles and steps of the embedded instruction process. In this study, it is given information about the researches related to embedded instruction that was planned for teaching different behaviors to the children with developmental disabilities by different practitioners. The contributions that the process of embedded instruction makes to preschooler with developmental disabilities, their families and teachers, are shared. In addition, the article examines the concept of embedded instruction in order to make suggestions for practitioners in the light of various research studies that emphasize the effectiveness and efficacy of the naturalistic instructional approach.

Individuals with severe and multiple disabilities (SMD) continuously need help and support from their family members due to havingthe limited abilities in demonstrating the skills to live independently. The biggest responsibility for meeting their needs belongsto their parents. In this process, identifying the problems experienced by parents, especially mothers who are the primary caregivers spending most of their time with their children would contribute to arrangement of the services provided for them. This study is intended to determine the problems experienced by the mothers of children with SMD and to identifythe means to cope with these problems. The research is designed in a phenomenological model based on qualitative research method. The data were collected through semi-structured interview technique. Five mothers of children with SMD were interviewed and the data were analyzed via descriptive analysis. According to the results of the research, mothers were experiencing problems related to diagnosis of the child, education, health, transportation, environment and family relations, financial difficulties, and future concerns. It was also identified that mothers felt lonely and weak and had very limited means in coping with theproblems they experinced.

In this study, the effect of the main ideas strategy instruction on the development of the reading comprehension of three fourth grade students who had difficulty in reading, was assessed by using a multiple probe design across the participants. The data were analyzed by means of graphical analysis. The participants reading comprehension performance in the teaching sessions and in full probes was evaluated through the use of short-answer reading comprehension questions that consisted narrative texts. The maintenance of the ability to identify the main ideas was probed at three and five weeks following the implementation of the main ideas instruction. In addition, social validity data were used to evaluate the qualitative dimensions of the effects of the instructional program. Findings of this study showed that the instruction on identifying main ideas contributed to all three participants in learning to identify the main ideas and key details, and in maintaining these learned skills and providing a higher-level of reading comprehension performance compared to the baseline probe sessions. All results indicate that the main ideas strategy instruction utilizing the direct instruction model can improve the reading comprehension scores of the participants, identified as poor readers.

The study was carried out with mothers who had children with special needs between the ages 3-17 and who attended a private rehabilitation center under the Ministry of National Education. A total of 16 mothers, 8 in the experimental group and 8 in the control group, participated in the study in which the pretest-posttest control group experimental model was used. The group psychological counseling program consisting of 8 sessions were implemented on the mothers in the experimental group. The data were collected through the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory and the Satisfaction with Life Scale. Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) was used in analyzing the data. It was observed that, as a result of the group psychological counseling program, there was a significant decrease in the state-trait anxiety scores and an increase in the life satisfaction levels of the mothers in the experimental group.

This research aims to examine the paintings of Muhammed Yalçin, who has 70 capacity loss to work, IQ level in the range of 35 40, and who is particularly talented in the field of visual arts, in terms of plastic values, the influence on his social development utilizing Blooms Taxonomy. In the study, case study, which is among the qualitative research methods, was used. Examples from Muhammed Yalçins paintings on paper, canvas, floor and wall, in which he transformed the slum house into a work of art, were collected. A semi-structured interview form was used to interview with his parents. Whether or not the paintings produced by Muhammad contributed to his communication skills was examined in his works. The paintings produced by him were analyzed descriptively using plastic values and Bloom’s Taxonomy. In the study, it was observed that his works have aesthetic values and original qualities, and they contribute to his social development and psychological comfort. Furthermore, it was understood that he uses these images as means of expression and communication. When the pictures were analyzed according to Bloom’s Taxonomy, it was seen that he could create works of art at synthesis level in the cognitive domain, organization level in the affective domain, and affective level and origination level in psychomotor domain

This study explores sexual, physical and emotional abuse that individuals with certain disabilities, draws attention to the neglected cases of abuse of the individuals with disabilities and looks to its prevention. It covers news that appeared in written Turkish media between the years 2005 and 2015. Ten most popular newspapers have been chosen and screened for the study. Specific terms such as “sexual abuse, sexual harassment, rape, physical and emotional abuse of individuals with disabilities” were utilized for locating similar events in search engines. Basically, the questions were geared towards factors such as abuser, types of abuse, location and context of abuse. This study should be conceptualized as an “archival research” with various subtypes of “document analysis.” Furthermore, since the news has been classified according to years and months to gain a wider perspective of the occurrences, the study also deserves to be classified as a “trend analysis”.