Abstract
The purpose of this research was to investigate the current conditions and it¡¦s effectiveness of educational professional teams for the physically and mentally handicapped in Kaohsiung City. The research primarily targeted parents of the students who had received services from the educational professional teams for the physically and mentally handicapped in Kaohsiung City, teachers of the students, and administrators. The tool used was ¡§Survey Questionnaire for the Educational Professional Teams for the Physically and Mentally Handicapped in Kaohsiung City,¡¨ which was written by the researcher. Administrators and therapists for the services of these professional teams were interviewed to support the survey research.
The questionnaire and interview results were analyzed and synthesized with statistical techniques, and the following findings were obtained:
I. At present, in implementing professional team services in Kaohsiung City, the formulation of individualized educational plans by teachers, concerned specialized personnel, and parents, supplementary instruction, team evaluations, parent participation, and teachers¡¦ understanding of auxiliary tools still have a lot to be improved.
II. In promulgating related knowledge and skills of professional teams in the the future, teachers that have no background in special education should be considered the most important targets of communication and education.
III. Delays in appropriating Ministry of Education subsidies and annual budget, insufficient human resources, lacking in support of school administration, and ineffective communication of concepts of team services between professional personnel and parents are among the difficulties that team administrators face.
IV. Insufficient time available for therapy, failure to match between teachers and therapists, insufficient team administrative assistance, and insufficient cooperation from parents are among the common difficulties that professional personnel face at present.
V. Delayed provision of therapy service, failure to provide appropriate guidance service, and inappropriate attitude of therapists were considered by the parents that were surveyed to have to be improved with regard to the service of the educational professional teams for the physically and mentally handicapped in Kaohsiung City.
VI. Insufficient service in terms of times and amounts of time, failure to provide appropriate service, time-consuming and tedious application procedures, therapists unable to support the teachers, therapists unable to participate in individualized education plans, and therapists¡¦ failure to demonstrate therapy techniques were considered by the teachers to have to be improved urgently with regard to the service of the educational professional teams for the physically and mentally handicapped in Kaohsiung City.
VII. On average, the surveyed parents obtained high scores on the survey scale, indicating their subjective satisfaction with the service provided by the educational professional teams for the physically and mentally handicapped in Kaohsiung City.
VIII. The surveyed teachers obtained high scores on the ¡§overall scale¡¨ and four sub-scales in the survey scale: ¡§professional integration,¡¨ ¡§professional knowledge and skills,¡¨ ¡§parent participation,¡¨ and ¡§case management,¡¨ indicating good results of implementing professional teams for the physically and mentally handicapped in Kaohsiung City.
According to the findings, strategies to solve problems and suggestions on ensuing research in the future are put forth.
Keyword: professional team
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0624105-145722 |
| Date | 24 June 2005 |
| Creators | Wang, Wu-Yi |
| Contributors | none, none, none |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0624105-145722 |
| Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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