Dr. Ming-Chung Chen is currently an
associate professor. After graduating
from
in 1989, he worked at elementary school for 4 years; meanwhile, he finished his
B Ed. He then studied for his master’s
degree during 1994-1996. During
1996-2001, Dr. Chen served at a Special Education School as a teacher as well
as an administrator. He completed his
Ph.D. in 2001, then, began his teaching career in this university, NCYU.
He takes high interests in assistive technology, especially computer access and
augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), and computerized
instruction. His research projects have
being founded by the National Science Council since 2002. Ming-Chung is easy to get along with all the
students. He is firm but gentle towards
all the students. Students name him “Brother
Chung” which indicate students love and respect him like an elderly
brother. He cares and loves all his
pupils and the latter usually gather together is his Computer Lab, I201, which
was established under the grant of the Ministry of Education due to
Ming-Chung’s contribution.
Dr. Cheng-Chien Chen is a
professor at ,
who got a Ph.D. from National Chang-Hwua University of Education, Taiwan. He had some working experience in education
including elementary teacher, associate researcher, and educational
administrator of local government. His
Research Interests: his research interest lies in examining the impacts of
behavioral and cognitive- behavioral modification on ADHD during the past
years. He is also particularly
interested in what children with ADHD understand in educational situational
settings and how teachers might be able to use that information when they
communicate with parents of ADHD. To date,
his research has been mainly focusing on mental retarded children; however, his
papers have actualized theory into important practicing implications for mental
retarded children, as well as for hyperactive and off-task behavioral children. He had published several textbooks such as Calligraphy Therapy –Theory, Programs and Practices, Assessing
Children with Special Needs and assessment and evaluation such as Activity
Rating Scales for elementary children and Activity Rating Scales for preschool
children, Leadership Aptitude test, Chinese abilities test(co-worker) in
Chinese edition at Taiwan area. His Teaching Interests:behavior
modification, assessment and evaluation for exceptional children, assessing
strategies for children with special
needs, cognitive psychology , issues on special education, calligraphy
therapy. His : , Minghsiung
Campus.
Dr. Jung-Chang Tang is an associate
professor at
who got a Ph.D. from ,
. He had published several papers in
identified by Social Scientific Citation Index (SSCI). He takes strong interests in behavior
disorders, severe disabilities, and the transitional services for the secondary
students. He is a deep thinker who has
good reputations on his professional achievements and on his contribution
towards Buddhism. Graduate students in
this department admire his professional research ability and many of them
become his pupils to provoke their research potentials.
Dr. Chiu-Hua Chiang is also known as
Lotus Chiang. She is the chair for this
department. She serves as the chair
because she loves all the students and is willing to sacrifice her quality life
for their sake. Lotus Chiang is an
associate professor at
who earned her Ed.D at the University of Northern Colorado University, U.S.A.
in 1995. She has been working with
students with autism, severely emotional/behavioral disorders, and attention
deficit hyperactivity disorders over ten years.
She works hard in solving the conflicts between the elementary schools and
parents of exceptional children in Yuan-Chia areas which are under the
supervision of this department. Lotus
loves exceptional children so she pushes hard for the elementary schools as
well as the parents of exceptional children to make progresses. She takes high interests in the practices and
topics of parenting for the exceptional children, early intervention, ADHD,
EBD, and autism.
Dr. Yu-Hsia Lin is an
associate professor in the department of Special Education in the Teachers’
College at . Dr. Lin got a Ph.D. at the Ohio State
University, U.S.A. One of her major
responsibilities is teacher education for individuals interested in the
education of deaf and language disorder students. Dr. Lin’s research interests involve the
areas of literacy, language development, and deafness. Dr. Lin has published several scholarly
papers on language and literacy development of individuals with severe to
profound hearing impairment. Her scholarly
texts include Hearing Impairment---A
Resource Manual, Language Sample Analysis, Student Teaching---Early Childhood
Practicum Guide, Handbook of Early Intervention, Play and Child Development.
Dr. Jui-Liang Jerry Chien, an associate professor at , earned his doctorate in special education at the . Dr. Chien’s current research interests focus on developing Intuition Teaching theory, and conducts applied Intuition Teaching research with his wife, Dr. Mei-Hua Rose Chang. He publishes widely in the areas of teacher training and the treatment of learning disabilities/ behavioral disorders.
Dr. Mei-Hua Rose Chang is an assistant professor at National
ChiaYi University. Dr. Chang received her doctorate in special
education from the University
of South Dakota. With her
husband, Dr. Jui-Liang Jerry Chien, she is developing Intuition Teaching
strategies to enhance teachers’ teaching skills and increase teachers’ positive
beliefs and attitudes toward their students.
Dr. Chang conducts applied Intuition Teaching and Cognitive Behavior
Modification research with Dr. Chien and publishes widely in the areas of
learning disabilities and teacher training programs. To students, Jerry and Rose are two lovely
married couple who treat the students like their own children.
Dr. Ya-Ping Wu is an Assistant
Professor in the Department of Special Educational at National Chiayi
University (NCYU) in Taiwan, where she has been on the faculty since 2013. She
was responsible for the elementary teacher education program in severe
disabilities at NCYU. Her primary areas of research interest are assistive
technology, augmentative and alternative communication, General curriculum access for students with
severe disabilities and Autism Spectrum Disorders, science,
and math for students with severe disabilities. She was also Co-Director of the Special Education Teaching Research
Center at NCYU where conducts research and provides teacher training for
in-service and pre-service special education teachers.
Dr. Wei-Ren Chen, PhD, is an
assistant professor of Department of Special Education at National Chiayi
University in Taiwan. He received his doctoral degree under his advisor Dr.
Liora Bresler in Curriculum and Instruction, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
His research focuses on curricular differentiation and teacher professional
development in the field of gifted education. From 2002 to 2013 he worked as an
elementary school teacher for the students with giftedness and special needs at
Taipei Mandarin Experimental Elementary School. With an interest in the arts,
he loves to explore aesthetic qualities in teaching, learning, and life. He
believes students will be inspired and enriched by the aesthetic undertaking
with teachers' mindful design.