Environmental graphic and way finding design impacts on disability schools for children

In today's developing world, accomodating to those with disabilties is becoming more of a focus and it is taking more space in the realm of legality. However, disabled individuals are still having accessibilty limitations and social difficulties in fully and independently participating in society. These issues have a negative influence on the disabled's right for education. In this thesis, the impact of environmental graphic and way finding design on the interior and exterior design criteria for disability schools was studied. Milli Eğitim Bakanlığı Örgün Öğretim Kurumları and Özel Eğitim Kurumları tip projects were deeply studied from the standpoint of accessibilty, anthropometry, ergonomics, color, perception, instructional and infomational design. In addition, the sociological and physical impacts of the overall design on the disabled individuals were evaluated. Recent government supported projects for disabled indivuals to be employed, socialize and accepted in society were also evaluated. Implementing design for all principle in buildings will help disabled people find their space in society. In this thesis, with evaluation and comparison of sample projects, accesibility on disability schools for children was detailed in terms of enviromental and instructive desing. Key Words: Disability Education Rights, Disabled Schools, Accesibility, Environmental Graphic Design, Way Finding, Colour.