Inclusion: Don’t Forget about the Preschool Teachers.

The question this study poses is: What are the needs of preschool teachers with regard to supporting the development of children with disabilities, that need to be incorporated into an effective and instructional teacher training program? With inclusion being a relatively new concept (started in 1997) in Turkey, this study aims to uncover the areas in which preschool teachers with special needs students in their classrooms considered themselves incompetent. The study was conducted through two rounds of individual semi-structured interviews, first with forty female preschool teachers in…