Opinions of directors related to the suitability of secondary school buildings for disabled people (Kocaeli sample)

In this research, it is aimed to be detected adequacy of arrangements made in secondary schools for pyhsically disabled people. While the directors of 43 private secondary school and 283 public secondary school existing in Kocaeli Province generating the universe of the research in 2017-2018 Educational Year, directors of 130 private secondary school and 620 public secondary school selected by the randomly sampling way generates the exemplification of the research. In the process of collecting data of the project, the control list of arrangements made in secondary school buildings for physically disabled students has been used. In the analyse of datas, beside descriptive statistical methods, also chi square test has been used. With the arrangements made in physical situations of schools, it has been examined in terms of disabled toilet, elevator arrangements; the disability situation of directors or their relatives, the in-service training directors got, the number of physically disabled teachers and students existing at school, the number of students and floors at school, construction date of school and becoming a private school or a public school. In the physical arrangements of school, the buildings constructed after the circular letter, existing physically disabled students and in which there are directors who have physically disabled relatives have been found more suitable. In the arrangements related to the toilets, the buildings constructed after the circular letter, existing of physically disabled teachers and students and in which there are directors who has a disability or disabled relatives have been found more suitable. Also, in the arrangements of elevator, the buildings constructed after the circular letter, existing of physically disabled teachers and that have a lot of floors have been found more suitable. It has not been seen any difference in the arrangements made according to the in-service training the school directors got and in the arrangements made according to the situation of being private school or a public school. Key words: physically disabled individual, arrangements at school buildings.