Accessibility Condition of Primary and Secondary School Buildings for Disabled People in the City of Karabük

Accessibility Condition of Primary and Secondary School Buildings for Disabled People in the City of Karabük

In Turkey, it is unfortunately seen to have been made in order to fulfil legal obligations as built improvements for the accessibility existing physical spaces of disabled people. Accordingly, people with disabilities face a number of problems in the life of the society. For this reason, it is necessary to take precautions to ensure that the disabled people's participation in processes for social life such as especially education and health can be ensured without problems. Together with the resolution of these problems, disabled people will also have attained to an accessible environment and higher standards of living. The main objective of this study is to examine what extent accessible for physically disabled individuals of the National Education School buildings located in Karabük province. Because many of the educational buildings are unfortunately not designed for disabled people. In this study, the accessibility problem for the disabled people of the selected school building by examining the school buildings in the centre of Karabük province affiliated with the Ministry of National Education will be presented some solutions and suggestions. The obtained results show that the majority of the primary and secondary school buildings in the centre of Karabük province affiliated with National Education are not suitable for the accessibility of the disabled individuals. Also, it is seen that the earthquake safety of the school buildings in question does not meet terms of the Turkey Earthquake Regulations of which is in force today, too. For this reason, it seems that school buildings should in question be strengthened in such a way that most of the together improvements to disability accessibility will provide earthquake safety.

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