Analysis of Researches on Individuals with Special Needs and Their Academic Successes

Year 2020, , 105 - 110, 20.12.2020

Aytekin Hamdi Başkan , Ayşenur Oral , Fırat Demiroğlu , Gözde Keleş

https://doi.org/10.33438/ijdshs.764919

Abstract

The aim of this study is to examine the researches on the academic achievement of individuals with special needs in 2018-2019 and in the fields of science. It is reported that the number of the individuals with special needs in the world and Turkey is increasing day by day. It is known that there are difficulties in academic learning according to the type and level of special needs of people with special needs.The mainstreaming approach, which is accepted as the continuation of general education schools with their peers, provided that individuals with special needs receive special education services to support their education, has been widely adopted in many countries for the past thirty years .For the children who have special needs, inclusive education is really important to keep up with the society.The purpose of co-education is to meet the social and emotional needs of students with special needs by integrating them academically and socially with their peers.In this study, the data archive of the Google trend search engine in 2018-2019 was used as a method for the comparative study of individuals with special needs and academic success, which are research topics.According to the research, it is found that the rate of research or people who have special needs is quite high compared to the academic success and it’s observed when we consider all these issues between the cities people with special needs have been researched in nearly provinces of Turkey. Moreover, it is found that although the rates were quite high, the success wasn’t and the number of the researches are higher in Ankara and İstanbul than other provinces.

Keywords

Individuals With Special Requirement, , Disabled, Academic Successes

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