Industrialisation, technological developments and the developments and changes in information technologies have had an effect on community life. As an important means for people to express, realise and develop themselves, the relationship between people and physical education and sport has become a phenomenon that concerns every section of society.\nWith this structure, the scope of the sport concept has spread to a wide area defined by different gender, age and performance groups, illnesses, types and levels of disability, and living and work conditions according to social, psychological and physical expectations.\nThese new dimensions and functions that sport has taken on in communal life have made the training of sports professionals who can meet the needs of areas requiring special expertise essential.\nTo be able to realise an improvement in life quality, integration and rehabilitation of disabled individuals, the existence of an occupational group trained to have the knowledge and equipment for the special sporting conditions and facilities necessary for every disabled group must be provided for. Therefore, the provision of a higher education programme that trains exercise and sport specialists for the disabled by considering the extent of the greatly varied disabled universe has become essential.\nThe Undergraduate Programme at the Institution of Rehabilitation and Sports for the Disabled at the German Sport University, Cologne has been adopted as a contemporary model within the framework of the teacher training concept in Turkey.\nTo solve the problem of qualified staff who can organise mobility, games and sports activities for the disabled according to type and level of disability both in and out of school, the Department of Exercise and Sport Training for the Disabled, which was the first of its kind in Turkey, was established at Malatya İnönü University in the 2011-2012 Academic Year. \nAt the end of the 2016, 2017 and 2018 Academic Years, a total of 120 Exercise and Sport Specialists for the Disabled were graduated.\nThe graduates are employed as Teachers in Special Education Schools and Special Education and Rehabilitation Centres, as Trainers and Instructors in Municipalities, and as Trainers and Life Coaches for the Disabled in Sports Clubs.\nConsequently, this Undergraduate Programme fills an important gap in terms of educating a professional group needed by the nation.

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