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Country Report - Turkey

3rd Workshop on Training of Teachers of the Visually Impaired in Europe,
Warsaw, Poland, 3 - 6 April 2002


by mrs Aysegul Ataman

1. Legislation

There is a legislation that is numbered 573 which requires visually impaired children will be integrated in regular school settings from elementary school through high school.

2. Staff

Itinerant teacher
Talking books, readers
Text books are provided in braille

3. Equipment

Not sufficient

4. Itinerant teachers

Itinerant teachers are trained teachers for the visually impaired.
Itinerant teachers are based local agency.
The ratio is 1/20
The itinerant teachers give support to the classroom teacher and v.i. children
There is no support service for parents

5. Training of teachers of the v.i.

Our University is the only institution for training teachers for the visually impaired.


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