| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立屏東師範學院 === 特殊教育學系碩士班 === 91 === The purpose of this study is to investigate the situation of the disciplinary team service in the special education schools in Taiwan. The samples include 334 specialists from 23 special education schools in Taiwan. The questionnaire survey is conducted by 「scales of disciplinary team service」. The researcher also interviewed 25 administrators of disciplinary team service in special education schools. The questionnaire data are analyzed by means of descriptive statistics, t-test, and owe-way ANOVA. The major findings are as follows.
1、In the present time, specialists in special education school can fulfill themselves quite well.The number of hired specialists are different among schools. The services offered by most schools are occupational therapy, physical therapy and psychological consultation. Speech therapists and social workers are employed by less than half of the schools. Service provided by special schools, on the whole, are accorded with the teachers’ expectation. However, lacking of speech therapy service leads to the teacher''s expectation unfulfilled.
II、Most specialists of special schools serve provide pull-out service, and there is a considerable lack of integrated collaboration.
III、Most specialists think they can fulfill themselves in special education school. Although they have confidence in themselves, but the most unsatisfied are as followed : the severity of students’ disabilities ; lack of supported worker ; lack of parents’ cooperation ; lack of integration of administrative units ; lack of opportunities for advanced study ; and the negligence of specialists’ welfares and rights.
IV、The results of the analysis are as followed : special education school teachers are found more aggressive than related specialists on the performance of the disciplinary team service ; senior or older specialists adapt themselves better than junior or younger ones ; the disciplinary team service of hearing impaired schools does not perform as well as expected ; the specialists of general special schools are less satisfied with their jobs and working conditions than other schools ; the related specialists who are employed permanently work more positively and efficiently than those who are employed annually or only for a certain period.
V、Administrators responsible for disciplinary team service think the lack of related specialists, lack of parents’ cooperation, and lack of collaboration among specialists are the biggest problems in performing the disciplinary team service.
According to the result of this research, suggestions for solving the problems and the future researches are hence made.
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