Erasmus+ (KA220-HED) project titled “Upskilling Preservice Teachers to Support Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder through Digital Social Stories”, prepared under the leadership of our university faculty member Prof. Dr. M. Yunus ERYAMAN and conducted by Dr. Lecturer Sinan KALKAN, funded by the Polish National Agency, has been deemed worthy of support with a budget of 250,000 Euros.

Erasmus+ (KA220-HED) project titled “Upskilling Preservice Teachers to Support Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder through Digital Social Stories”, prepared under the leadership of our university faculty member Prof. Dr. M. Yunus ERYAMAN and conducted by Dr. Lecturer Sinan KALKAN, funded by the Polish National Agency, has been deemed worthy of support with a budget of 250,000 Euros.

The project partners include the University of Warsaw, the University of Bucharest, and the University of Madrid Computense. In addition, Prof. Dr. M. Yunus ERYAMAN, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Martina RİEDLER ERYAMAN, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yahya Han ERBAŞ and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Levent ÇETİNKAYA from the Faculty of Education are working as researchers in the project.

The project aims to develop digital stories that can be easily accessed and implemented by teachers in order to support the social-emotional skills of children with autism, which are among the diagnostic features, and to create an archive on this subject. Accordingly, the project will focus on the positive effects of social stories on children with ASD and will help children use these stories with digital educational materials supported by other visuals such as flashcards, word cards, symbol/sign cards, etc. and combine digital teaching.