A Brief Overview of Education Services Presentation for the Disabled in a Sample of University

Abstract

According to the World Disability Report in 2011 of The World Health Organization (WHO) more than one billion people in the world are living with any type of disability, and 200 million disabled people have remarkable diffiulties on keeping up with their lives. People with disabilities have lower educational achievements particularly when they encounter barriers in access to education services. Therefore, the matter of quality education should be included in the program to facilitate the lives of people with disabilities. “Unburdened Turkey Project” has been performed in Turkey since 2007. Unburdened Life Unit, Mersin University that was established in 2006 under the law relating to disabled people that entered into force in Turkey in 2005, carries out some studies with the aim of “Unburdened University”. Unburdened Life Unit, Mersin University was awarded with “Accessibility-Quality Incentive Award” in 2011 by the Ministry of Family and Social Policy for its studies about unburned campus; with “Barrier-Free Education” for the “Physical Accessibility Map” prepared for the disabled people in 2013 and “Voice Textbook Project” for academic accessibility by Turkey Unburdened IT Platform. The aim of this study is to examine the state of the educational services given to the disabled people in a university environment and to evaluate making quality education, removing the barrier to academic success and to create awareness through educational services. Considering Mersin University sample, it is to determine the things that must be found in existing education service by reviewing the literature about the presentation of education service. As a result, according to the sample of Mersin University that we have taken as a subject, there are positive developments to improve the quality of education services in the universities. With increasing such kind of positive applications and the correction of negative features, the disabled individuals being trained will be independent, active and productive people in the society through the quality education they will have. It is thought that the disabled individuals having quality education will empower people living with disabilities in community life and contribute the disabled people to take part in society.