This document summarizes a group project aimed at increasing preschool education opportunities for disabled children in Turkey. The group used tools like a Gantt chart, brainstorming, surveys, and literature reviews to analyze barriers. They found a lack of awareness, financial issues, and insufficient special education programs. To address this, the group started an online campaign and suggested raising parent awareness, adding more special education centers, and creating inclusive playgrounds. Their work concluded that more support is needed from the government, private sector, and foundations to help disabled children access preschool.

1. LET’S START TO DESTROY
HANDICAPS FROM PRE-SCHOOL
EDUCATION
DR. HAYAL KOKSAL
www.bilisimcimartilar.com
BEYOND HANDICAPS

2. Ezgi ERARSLAN : Group Leader
Rojda DEMİR : Coordinator
Cumhur YAZGAN : Event Manager
Cemile Büşra DUMAN : Communication
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Let’s Start to Destroy Handicaps from Pre-school
Education

3. CONTENT
 Gantt Card
 Brain Storming
 Matrix Diagram
 Fishbone
 Matrix Diagram
 Literature Review
 Survey
 Suggestions
 Conclusion

4. GANTT CARD
May
Steps W2 W3 W4 W1 W2 W3 W4 W1
Months
Weeks
March April
Plan
Literature review identifying targets
Final video takig and presenting it to Dr. Koksal
Check
Act
Share
Determination of the problem
Approval of the problem area by Dr.Koksal
Determination of the main and root causes
Probable solutions, developing strategies
Preparing data collection tools
Do
Collecting data
Survey
Analysis data
To evaluate results of survey
Solution,suggestion,conclusion
Ppt preparation
Presentation

5. BRAIN STORMING
1- Disabled students
cannot join sportive
activities.
2- These people cannot
live safety in daily life.
3- There are not
kindergarten for
disabled students.
4- They are excluded in
social life. http://www.thompson-pharmacy.com/wp-
content/uploads/2010/03/Gait-Trainer-
New.jpg

6. MATRIX DIAGRAM

7. AWARENE
SS
SYSTEM
FINANCIA
L
PEOPLE
Lack of
knowledge
Weak
interaction
İgnoranc
e by
state
Sllyabus
Teacher
Other
children
Fund
Insensitivity of
private sector
FISHBONE

8. MATRIX DIAGRAM
Awarene
ss
System Financial People
Rojda 3 7 6 4
Ezgi 6 7 5 4
Cumhur 4 6 7 3
Cemile
Büşra
5 4 3 6
TOTAL 18 24 21 17
% 22,5 30 26,25 21,25

9. LITERATURE REVIEW
 "This is a child they said would not make it,"
said Debbie Kowalski, Amy [Kowalski]'s
mother and a Coral Springs resident. "She
had no control of her head at all. She could
maybe roll from her belly to her back and
smile a little but that was all. Pretty much, she
had no motor abilities.’’ That's the condition
Amy was in when she came to the
Achievement and Rehabilitation Centers of
Broward preschool program for disabled kids
in Sunrise.

11.  Amy, 3, is one of 115 children with
disabilities who attend the yearlong
program at ARC of Broward, a nonprofit
private agency that helps adults and kids
with developmental impairments. At the
preschool, kids get free individualized
attention, help and training to match their
specific disability.
 Sanchez, O. (1995). PRESCHOOL PROGRESS ARC PROGRAM HELPS DISABLED CHILDREN.
Sun Sentinel

12.  First kindergarten is established in Bursa for
vision disabled children.
 One another kindergarten in Turkey is Denizli
Special Education Kindergarten.
 This year one kindergarten is also established in
Düzce for disabled children.
 As you can see, there is not enough kindergarten
in Turkey for preschool education of disabled
children.

14. SURVEY
Question 1
Do you have any familiar
who is handicaped at pre-
schooler ages?
40
YES NO

15. Question 2
If there is, did she/he get pre-school
education ?
50
YES NO

16. Question 3
Do you know kindergarten for disabled
students?

17. Question 4
There is not enough kindergarten for disabled
children. In your opinion, should this problem be
solved ?
95
3.2
YES NO

18. Question 5
Do you support kindergarten which are special
for disabled children?

19. Question 6
Do you support that disabled students get
education with your children ?

20. Question 7
Does the education system of Turkey
appropriate for that both disabled children and
healthy children get education together ?
YES NO

21. Question 8
Does the idea of mixed class (disabled and
healthy students) lead to students mental disease ?
YES NO

22. Question 9
Will you support such a Project if it is
started ?
80
3.2
YES NO

23. Question 10 / SUGGESTIONS
What can be done to increase awareness about
disabled children at the age of pre-school ?
• Aid campaign could be started via social media.
• The parents’ awareness about education of their
disabled children should be raised.
•The state should institute more special education
centers.
•We can make the disabled and non-disabled
children friends by making playground available for
the disabled children.

24. CONCLUSION
 The state does not encourage this topic
enoughly.
 The private sector ignores this problem.
 Some parents do not want disabled children in
their childrens’s class.
 Foundations are not interested in our subjects.
 We started a campaign at www.change.org.
 People support our campaign and they comment
so possitively.
https://www.change.org/p/cumhur-yazgan-engelli-%C3%A7ocuklar-
i%C3%A7in-
anaokulu?recruiter=61222566&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=face
book&utm_campaign=share_facebook_responsive&utm_term=des-lg-no_src-

25. THANKS
TO HAYAL
KOKSAL
FOR
SUPPORT
S

26. THANKS FOR
LISTENING AND
THANKS TO
ERSOY ERDEMIR
FOR HİS
ASSISTANCE

27. REFERENCES
 Imece Circles by Dr. Hayal Koksal
 Sanchez, O. (1995). Preschool Progress Arc
Program Helps Disabled Children. Sun Sintel. 5
 Mavi Bilye Children Workplace- Sanem Bay
 Pink Kindergarten- Asiye Yildirim Yavuz
 Darıca Menekse Kindergarten- Beyhan Cam