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This phenomenological qualitative study aims to reveal the profile of urban poverty based on the experiences and opinions of families with children with special needs and examine the reflections of the poverty they experience in special education. The twelve study participants are eight mothers and four fathers and their special needs children from eight families who live in the city center of Mugla/Turkey. The data were collected through interviews and analyzed through content analysis. The current findings show that families with special needs children feel urban poverty more deeply than those who do not. Families find the special education services provided for their children insufficient in terms of quality and quantity. As a result of poverty, their children cannot receive additional special education services. In addition, these families rarely benefit from the opportunities offered by urban life due to both having a child with special needs and financial inadequacies.

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