An investigation of the relationships of 8-12 years old typically developing children with special needs siblings and their mothers with the special needs child

The support of the mother and the sibling with typical development is inevitable for the individual with special needs to lead an independent life. For this reason, the importance of communication and interaction with the child with special needs is very important. In this direction, it is aimed to examine the relationships of children with special needs and typically developing children and mothers with special needs children. This study was carried out using mixed research method. The quantitative study group of the research consisted of 70 special-purpose children who continue to special education and old age in Çanakkale and İzmir, and their siblings and mothers who show adult development between the ages of 8-12; 15 studies that also agree to maintain the skill set and to draw form the typical developmental chest fraternity. As a data collection tool in the study, the leaked "General Information Form" by the researcher in order to obtain information about children and their families, and Schaeffer-Edgerton (1979) and Mc Hale et al. (1986), adapted into Turkish by Ahmetoğlu and Aral (2008) and validated and validated, the "Schaeffer Sibling Behavior Scale" and the "Picture Information Form" targeted by the researcher and whose scope was validated were used. In the research, SPSS package program was used in quantitative data analysis and content analysis was used in qualitative data analysis. As a result of the research conducted between mothers and individuals with general development between the ages of 8-12 with special-purpose children; mother's age, father's age, family structure, number of children in the family, characteristics of children with special characteristics, children and problem behavior status, gender and age of the child with general development, agreement between child with typical development and child with special wishes, agreement between child with special wishes and mother with siblings While they found an impression between the behavioral evaluation periods, the siblings who showed permanent improvement in the drawings obtained from the drawings drew their nuclear families in their pictures, and in particular, they drew themselves happily when drawing their siblings as unhappy. According to the result obtained from the research, it was revealed that all members of the family spend quality time with the child with special purposes, and children with general development for information and purposes for children with special consumers are informed.