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The purpose of this study was to examine whether there was a relationship between social skills and articulation levels of children with mental disability and determine whether the social skills and articulation levels vary in terms of different variables. The sample group of the study consisted of 7-12 year old 121 children with mild and mid levels mental disability, attending schools bound to Ministry of Education at 2010-2011 education years in Istanbul. In the study, Social Skills Rating System (SBRS) was used to determine the social skills of children with mentall disbility and Ankara Articulation Test (AAT) was used to measure the articulation levels of children. According to the results of the study; between AAT scores of children with mental disability and SBDS sub-scales; social skills, problem behavior and academic competence, a high level meaningful association among the scores was found. No association was found between social skills, problem behavior and academic competenc

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