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Disability is a situation and process that includes difficulties in rationalizing and coping with it on the part of individuals with disabilities and their families. It can be said that religion has an important place among the ways used to make sense of the situation in question and to cope with the process. This is because religion is a resource that can provide the spiritual strength needed for people to cope with the situation they are in, by giving answers to people to make sense of the situation they are in. One of the basic elements that bring this function of religion to life is religious education. The main institution that organizes informal religious education activities for people with disabilities in Turkey is the Presidency of Religious Affairs. This study aims to understand the problems and expectations of hearing- and visuallyimpaired individuals who take part in the informal religious education given to people with disabilities in the Qur'an courses in the Presidency of Religious Affairs. The research is structured with a phenomenological pattern. Interviews consisting of semi-structured questions were used to obtain the data. Thirty people, 15 of whom were hearing impaired and 15 visually impaired, participated in the interviews. The data were analyzed with descriptive analysis and content analysis techniques. The results of the research were evaluated in four dimensions: the sources of the religious education of the participants, their coping with disability and the effect of religion, their religious education needs, and their expectations from the Qur'an courses in which they receive non-formal religious education in line with these needs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In the present day, the fact of migration has become an important issue that concerns almost the whole world. In many parts of the world and as a result of internal turmoil, wars, economic, political, and social turmoil, generally, in poor, underdeveloped, or developing countries, migration evolves into unpleasant scenes, particularly in the Middle East and in many other countries throughout the world. This situation shakes the countries both materially and morally. This article intends to study the individuals with disabilities who are forced to migrate and thus become refugees/asylum seekers/immigrants suffering from huge problems and the problems they encounter. Refugees with disabilities have many apparent and non-apparent problems, such as accommodation, exposure to discrimination, health and access to health services, employment, and education. Considering that even a healthy person would face many problems as a refugee, the problems of accommodation, nutrition, health, education, and employment increase exponentially for a person with a disability who becomes a refugee. Individuals with disabilities, who are already in need of care of others in many aspects during their everyday life, lose the right to live a decent life when they become refugees/immigrants/asylum seekers. This study examines mainly the problems of immigrants with disabilities in Türkiye as well as the standpoint of the world and the European Union with disabled immigrants. With the European Union norms and all international conventions, it has been recurrently stated that individuals with disabilities should be aided without discrimination on language, religion, race, gender, or citizenship/nationality. Sect to ensure these individuals are protected, treated equally with other individuals, and maintain their lives with dignity. Most of the studies performed on immigrants with disabilities, particularly those made in the European Union countries, express that official surveys and scientific studies on disabled immigrants are very few or insufficient. In this respect, it is not possible to state in this study that official, correct and valid figures can be adequately obtained with access to resources on immigrants with disabilities since they are not available. In many countries, adequate records, information, documents, and numerical data on immigrants with disabilities are not available or are incomplete. It has been observed that the data and resources on refugees with disabilities in the European Union are quite inadequate. This fact constituted the biggest limitation on the study. Accessible data, official figures and information are mostly obtained from disabled statistics and official sources in the EU and Turkiye. We endeavoured to review all literature that is relevant to our subject and accessible for us. Another matter that sounds interesting is that many studies conducted in the United States focused on the contribution of immigrants to the US economy and that immigration has been dealt with from this aspect. It is globally known that Turkiye has suffered a constant influx of immigrants due to its geographical location. Nowadays, Turkiye is the country hosting the maximum number of refugees throughout the world. Regarding the results of our study, education and school are out of reach for most immigrants living in Turkiye. Refugee children and youth do not go to school. Refugees with disabilities are not furnished with adequate information about non-governmental organizations that defend their rights. There are limited studies on handicapped immigrants in the world, in the European Union and Turkiye. Even though all international institutions in the world and their recommendations state that disabled refugees should be protected, these individuals cannot easily access shelter, health, education, employment and rehabilitation services. When these problems combined with the language barriers and financial hardships come in, the vast majority of disabled people have significant difficulties in coping with these problems. Based on these reasons, refugees are considered "unemployable" in terms of employment. The most important point this study intends to emphasise is to attract attention to the necessity of employing at least certain number of the handicapped refugees in European countries so that the EU countries lend assistance to Turkiye regarding the employment of disabled refugees, so that these individuals will live and hold on to life in a decent way and the burden on Turkiye can be alleviated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The problem of child abuses and neglect in the world and in our country is a social and health problem as old as human history. Considering the events recorded, abuse and neglect of children has gradually increased today and it has become a very important problem with its presence in cases that have not been brought to light. Neglect and abuse, which is difficult to overcome for normally developing children, causes greater problems in children with special needs. Laws, policies, regulations in the field of education and health, agreements made at national and international level, non-governmental organizations, print and visual media are the elements that can contribute to combating this problem. The aim of this study is to investigate and describe abuse news for children with disabilities published in 10 national newspapers in Turkey (AkÅŸam, Cumhuriyet, Evrensel, Hürriyet, Milliyet, Posta, Sabah, Sözcü, Türkiye, Vatan) between 01.01.2014 and31.12.2020. 136 news were reached in total. News were divided into categories and frequency analysis were made. When the news of abuse and neglect of children with disabilities were analyzed, it was found that children were subjected to sexual, physical, emotional abuse and neglect, respectively. It has been observed that the great majority of children who are subjected to abuse or neglect in terms of disability types have mental disabilities. When the abusers are examined in terms of the degree of closeness, the majority are strangers that the child does not know. According to the results of the research, suggestions for parents, teachers and the state were presented. The problem of child abuses and neglect in the world and in our country is a social and health problem as old as human history. Considering the events recorded, abuse and neglect of children has gradually increased today and it has become a very important problem with its presence in cases that have not been brought to light. Neglect and abuse, which is difficult to overcome for normally developing children, causes greater problems in children with special needs. Laws, policies, regulations in the field of education and health, agreements made at national and international level, non-governmental organizations, print and visual media are the elements that can contribute to combating this problem. The aim of this study is to investigate and describe abuse news for children with disabilities published in 10 national newspapers in Turkey (Akşam, Cumhuriyet, Evrensel, Hürriyet, Milliyet, Posta, Sabah, Sözcü, Türkiye, Vatan) between 01.01.2014 and31.12.2020. 136 news were reached in total. News were divided into categories and frequency analysis were made. When the news of abuse and neglect of children with disabilities were analyzed, it was found that children were subjected to sexual, physical, emotional abuse and neglect, respectively. It has been observed that the great majority of children who are subjected to abuse or neglect in terms of disability types have mental disabilities. When the abusers are examined in terms of the degree of closeness, the majority are strangers that the child does not know. According to the results of the research, suggestions for parents, teachers and the state were presented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Countries work on a variety of ways and methods in order to ensure the employment of disabled people and to reintegrate them into society as required by social policies. Among these methods, the most common ones are; Compulsory quota application, designated business applications, sheltered workplace application. The scheme of Sheltered Workplace has been put into practice so that those who are mentally disabled are rehabilitated and provided with occupational skills in order to enhance the probability of their being recruited in the labour force. The scheme of protected workplaces which is carried out in Turkey are supported by the state, both financially and technically. Furthermore, the environment in which the disabled can work is specially designed according to their specific needs. Bearing in mind that the implementation of protected workplaces is rather difficult to carry off, the success of the scheme depends on creating a work environment which is appropriate for the specific needs and characteristics of the disabled. The aim of this study is to examine the concept of disabled and the paradigm of disability employment. It is intended to assess the prospect of recruitment of mentally disabled people and their integration to society. Furthermore, the study endeavors to determine whether the scheme of protected workplaces is attainable or not. The Project called Z.E.K.İ. which is implemented by the management of Manisa Organized Industrial Zone has been used as a model in this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Objective: This study aims to investigate the death anxiety and state-trait anxiety levels of mothers of disabled children and compare them with mothers of non-disabled children. Data obtained from this study will contribute to the planning of services provided to families of children with disabilities. Method: The sample group consisted of 80 mothers of disabled children attending rehabilitation and special education centers in the province of Gaziantep and 78 mothers of non-disabled children, 158 mothers in total. The study used a convenience sampling method. A sociodemographic information form, Abdel-Khalek's Arabic Scale of Death Anxiety (ASDA), and the State- Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) were used as assessment tools. Results: The results of this study indicate that mothers of disabled children have statistically significantly higher scores on the ASDA subscale of "fear related to other situations reminding death" than mothers of non-disabled children. Similarly, mothers of disabled children have significantly higher state and trait anxiety levels. Conclusion: Mothers of disabled children have higher death anxiety and state-trait anxiety levels than mothers of non-disabled children. These results suggest that having a disabled child increases mothers' psychological burden. We may assume that psychological support provided for mothers with disabled children will improve the quality of care they give to their children and consequently increase the quality of life of children and family. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: This research was conducted to determine the anxiety levels and coping strategies of the parents who have handicapped children. Methods: Study population included the of parents of 1163 handicapped children who were from 15 rehabilitation centers in a city of, which are working in cooperation with the Ministry of National Education. Of all 405 parents who included in the study and who had handicapped children were reached. Constant State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, Coping Strategies Scale and an information form used for the data collection. Study variables were presented as means and percentages. Data was analyzed with the use of chi-square test, student’s t-test and one-way ANOVA. Results: Mothers constitutes 78.5 % and fathers 21.5% of the study population. The parents mean age 38.0± 9.1 years. It was found that 42.2% of the handicapped children was in 7-14 year age-group, 55.3% of the handicapped children was boy and 57 % was in mentally handicapped category. Conclusions: According to these results a statistically important difference was identified between the age , marital status, economic condition, education of the parents who have handicapped children, the age of the handicapped child and anxiety level. A relation was identified between handicapped children’s parents status of being acknowledge by the neighbourhood, receiving psychiatric support, the status of sharing distress and anxiety levels. According to the results of the present work the level of the coping with distress was higher in the parents having handicapped child, who receive psychological and social support. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study was conducted to determine how sexual lives and family functions of women with low educational and income status who had family members with disability were influenced. The study included subjects with disability comprising 12.29% of Turkish population who have disabilities. Using the sampling formula in which the size of universe was known, the sample included the families with 183 children with disability and women. Study was conducted in the center of the province Kayseri with children with disability in families with low socio-economic status, attending a school and with the families living in a neighborhood with low socio-economic status. Low income level determined unhealthiness and 56.8% of the participants reported to have problems in sexual relation. Sexual lives and family functions of women with low educational status and income level were determined to be negatively more affected because of an additional problem; having a member with disability in the family. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Background/aim: The aim of this study is to assess the validity and reliability of Turkish translation of the Physical Activity Scale for Individuals with Physical Disabilities (PASIPD) in a disabled Turkish population., Materials and Methods: Following the translation protocol of the PASIPD, the Turkish version of the PASIPD, Short Form-36, and International Physical Activity Questionnaire were administered to 198 developmentally and physically disabled individuals., Results: The Turkish version of the PASIPD was found to be reliable. The domains of the Turkish version of the PASIPD were also found to be valid. Four factors were obtained from the questionnaire. The ICC was 1.0 since all the respondents reported the same answers in the test and retest. The Cronbach α for the PASIPD was 0.60., Conclusion: The Turkish version of the PASIPD survey is valid and reliable for developmentally and physically disabled Turkish individuals and professionals can use it to assess physical activity level., Competing Interests: none declared, (This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.)