The project titled "Upskilling Preservice Teachers to Support Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder through Digital Social Stories", prepared under the leadership of Prof. Dr. M. Yunus ERYAMAN, one of the faculty members of our university, and carried out by Dr. Assist. Prof. Dr. Sinan KALKAN, titled "Upskilling Preservice Teachers to Support Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder through Digital Social Stories", our 30-month Erasmus+ (KA220-HED) project funded by the Polish National Agency was deemed worthy of support with a budget of 250,000 Euros. 

The partners of the project include University of Warsaw, University of Bucharest, Madrid Computense University". 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 applied by teachers to support the social-emotional skills of children with autism, which are among the diagnostic features of children with autism, 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 help children to use these stories with digital educational materials supported by other visuals such as flashcards, word cards, symbol/sign cards, etc. and to combine digital teaching.