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SPECIAL EDUCATION CENTER

¡@¡@The Special Education Center (SEC) was established in October 1974, under the request of the Ministry of Education on¡§The Program of Accelerating the Development of Special Education.¡¨This Center was the first of its kind in Taiwan, the Republic of China. The Center aims at promoting special education studies, sponsoring special educators' professional training, and offering assistance in solving problems in special education. The main goals are:

  1. Planning and proceeding research projects in all the related theories and practices of special education,
  2. Developing curriculum, teaching material, aids for children with special needs,
  3. Designing assessment tools for identification and diagnosis of children with special needs,
  4. Aiding the government in planning and proceeding special education policies and programs,
  5. Assisting special education teachers and administrators of junior and senior high schools in northern Taiwan in their teaching materials, methods, administration and spirits,
  6. Providing guidance on parenting to parents of children with special needs,
  7. Providing latest information, referral, consultation and assessment services for special education teachers, administrators, organizations, and exceptional children and their parents,
  8. Editing and publishing periodicals and books on special education,
  9. Collecting updated data on special education within the country and from abroad,
  10. Proceeding special education workshops and seminars,
  11. Providing in-service training programs for special education teachers, administrators of junior and senior high schools,
  12. Contacting special education organizations abroad and promoting academic exchange, and
  13. Setting up the nationwide information network
    on special education
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Centre Mission

Research/Study the teaching material in evaluating and support

Conduct teaching experimental study for special education

Provide consulting and coaching service

Publish the special education publication and books

Distribution other relative matter regards in special education

 

Future Prospective

Drive school environment to be a free barrier place

Enhance in supporting and managing the special education school (class)

Assist Northern Hsieh/City special education needed student to be evaluated and the preschool consulting committee to be utilized.

Enhancing further study course for the special education teacher

Enhancing consulting service to social and school level

Enhancing coursing for special education student in psychology consultation, study and distribution

Developing Plan

Mid term plan (Aug, 2003¡VJuly, 2005)

Long Term Plan (Aug, 2005-July, 2007)

Promoting our centre in study quantity and quality

Set a budget for a air power generator to improve noise in basement

Further national preschool gifted children education onto bottom level

Plan a accreditation for special children and diagnose centre as well

Widen assessment tool into practice for national special education appraisal

Widen education between the children/family

Edit special education teaching material in order to enhance the interflow within teachers

Apply a study project from National Science Committee and publish the outcome in SSCI to promote research quality in researching staff

Enhance international academic exchange

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