Opinions of Special Education Teachers about Teaching Reading and Writing to Mentally Retarded Children

The main purpose of this research is to state the opinions of special education teachers about teaching reading and writing to mentally retarded students. This research is designed descriptively. The participants of the research are 100 special education teachers. The data is received by a questionnaire prepared by the researcher. According to the findings, it is seemed that special education teachers don’t depend on only one method while teaching reading and writing but they especially use sound and sentence analysis methods. These methods are used for normally developed children. There is no method that is developed for mentally retarded children in Turkey. New methods that consider cognitive and learning features of mentally retarded children are needed