Çiğli Atatürk Organized Industrial Zone Special Education School provides education to individuals with moderate and severe mental disabilities between the ages of 3-23.Our school consists of 14 classrooms,1 music,1 sports and 1 art atelier,car-washing,poultry farming,agricultural practices and handicraft applications workshops and serves 97 students as of 2020-2021.1 principal,3 vice principals, 28 special education teachers,2 kindergarten teachers, 1 guidance counselor, 3 music teachers, 2 visual arts teachers work in our school.Our mission is to prepare our students who needs special education for business and professional areas and life, using materials in line with their interests, needs, abilities and competencies. In line with this mission; The staff of our institution are highly self-confident, open to learning new ideas and methods in special education, researcher and productive. In direct proportion to the scope of the integration education that is being implemented in our country; Our school, which carries out eTwinning projects in order to create online environments where all students can access each other regardless of obstacles and differences, to increase the level of awareness and sensitivity towards disabled individuals, to improve students' social and linguistic skills. Our school has been conducting the national project "We Are Here" since 2015 in order to change the negative social perception of individuals with mental disabilities. Our school is actively involved in Erasmus projects, and in this way, it prepares projects and makes applications to expand the vision of our institution. It participates in local, national activities that support inclusion and equality.Since its establishment, our school has been involved in local arts and music activities to integrate students with special needs with their normal developed peers.

In our school, students with mental and physical disabilities such as autism spectrum disorder, down syndrome, cerebral palsy between the ages of 3-23 receive education. Our school is in a region that receives immigration from Syria and the east of our country. For this reason, most of our parents are the children of families with low socio-economic level.

Karşıyaka Aydoğan Yağcı Science and Art Center started education in November 2016 and provides education to 720 students between the ages of 8 and 18, who have special skills in general talent, painting and music. Our institution is equipped with 20 special classrooms/ ateliers , 2 IT labs, 1 Artificial Intelligence lab,3 music workshop, 2 painting workshops. In our school there is 1 manager,3 deputy directors’ room.There are 28 teachers and 3 assistant staff. Although our institution is located in Çiğli District; it also serves specially talented students in the northern districts of Izmir. Our school has been giving special education in 3 areas; 1- General education 2-Art 3-Music Our students have special abilities with high IQ level. They always try to improve themselves by attending competitons and ot rewards.Our school tries to best students best according to abilities.They are special gifted students so they will learn to cooperate with all levels of peers in this project. Our school had been coordinating the Project “ To increase the quality of education of specially talented students and awarded with Etwinning Quality label with the Project “Future 2.0”. In the field of this application ; We received the Diction, Articulation, Clarity Achievement Award at the Mozart Academy 5th Izmir Polyphonic Choirs Festival. For eTwinning we also conducted the "Creative and Innovative Orff Schulwerk at Bilsem" project. "Orff-Schulwerk" prepares the environment for people to reveal the creative powers that already exist in them, which is based on rhythm, movement and speech, allows people to make music, dance and improvise as they feel, learning and exploring by combining all artistic fields, We continued the project with active participation, with an educational approach that offers an environment of experiment and creation. The students of our institution are the ones who have been successful in the Science and Art Center student selection exam they attended and who are entitled to settle in our institution according to the results of the IQ test made afterwards.Students who receive support education for the first 2 years in our institution then continue to the ETF (Making Individual Talents Aware) program for 2 years.Students who are placed in the OYG (Special Skills Developer) Program by their teachers have the opportunity to develop themselves in their field of interest and to participate in national-international projects.Students receive project-based education from the year they started our institution and improve themselves in project writing.All project studies carried out in our institution is carried out by students. All the students chosen to music department are trained specially and they choose their brances according to their abilities.They are placed to Music-Art Faculties after graduation