Ozcan Karaaslan

Biography

Dr. Karaaslan is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Special Education, in the Program of Intellectual Disability at Marmara University in Istanbul, Turkey. He got his Master’s degree from Cukurova University and Ph. D. degree from Anadolu University with emphasis on the effectiveness of Responsiveness teaching on children with autism and other developmental disabilities and their parent. During the doctoral program, he has been a visiting researcher at Case Western Reserve University Mandell School, Cleveland. He also went to the Department of Special Education of San Diego State University, USA for a period of 6 months with a TUBITAK scholarship in order to carry out post-doctoral studies. Currently, he is one of the study abroad coordinators (Erasmus and Mevlana) in the department of Special Education. He involved in several Turkish government projects on teacher education and curriculum development on children with developmental disabilities.