Ankara University Faculty of Educational Sciences Journal of Special Education is the first journal in the special education field in Turkey, its publication began in 1991, it has been published since 1992. It's been published as a national peer-reviewed journal since 1995. It was published in print in 1991, and from 1992 to 2015 it was published both in print and online, since 2016 it's been published only online. Since 2018, it's been published quarterly (March, June, September, and December).

Since 2008 Journal has been indexed in ProQuest Political Science Journals, since 2011 in EBSCO Host, and since 2014 in The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) Turkish Academic Network and Information Center (ULAKBİM) Social Sciences Database. Since 2016 it has been indexed in DOAJ, Turkish Education Index, and Turkey's SOBIAD Index, and since 2017 Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). For the forthcoming period to be listed in Scopus and SSCI as well as other related indexes, we have made our applications.

The Journal is a peer-reviewed, academic journal, that publishes scientific articles in the special education field that is a review, quantitative, qualitative, mixed-method research written in Turkish-English. The authors do not pay any fee during any part of the publication.

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