A review on mobile applications for preschool special education students in terms of visual communication design

This study includes a research on mobile application design by which early academic skills can be taught to pre-school children with special needs, using direct teaching method. A comprehensive analysis has been done on special education services and applications in Turkey. Special Education and Rehabilitation Center Supportive Education Programs include teaching modules prepared taking development levels and disability types of children with special needs into account. In the thesis, mobile application design was created with the pre-school special education need children in mind, and educational mobile application contents suitable for the pre-school special education need students were prepared by using the modules in the support education programs published by the Ministry of National Education. The educational content of the mobile application is tailored to the personalised education programs. Mobile application study was conducted in the light of information obtained by examination of educational toys used in pre-school education and by evaluating current special education mobile applications in terms of visual communication design.