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This study was carried out to determine the in-service training needs of special education teachers regarding sexual education. In the research, the Delphi technique, which aims for participants to reach a consensus and includes both qualitative and quantitative methods, was utilised. The study group consisted of 31 volunteer special education teachers, of whom 22 were women and 9 were men. The data were collected with the Delphi questionnaires created during the process, and in order to reach the final conclusion in Delphi, two separate analyses were made for stability and consensus. In the analysis of the data, the median, mode, standard deviation, variance, range, lowest and highest values, interquartile range and score range percentage values were calculated; normality assumptions were checked with the Shapiro-Wilk test and as a result, the Wilcoxon signed-ranks test was used. As a result of the study, it was concluded that special education teachers’ in-service training needs regarding sexual education were mostly in the area of protection skills, followed by the areas of self-care skills, family participation, peer relationships, perception training (affective domain), behaviour control, correct opposite-sex relationships, impulse control and treatment of problem behaviour.

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