A Research on Special Education Supportive Serivices Funding Formula in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Sun Mien Huang, 孫綿凰
• Other Authors: Hsin-Fu Ho
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/46095966339025697166

碩士 === 國立嘉義大學 === 教育行政與政策發展研究所 === 94 === This study aimed to identify the special education sutdents’ supportive services needs, and the costs required to pay for these needs. The special education supportive services mentioned in this study included special education assistive technology, disciplinary team services and teacher assistants. A four-rounds Delphi survey was conducted to 17 members, including professors, government officials, and doctors and therapists. The major research results were: 1. Disabled students with different levels of severity need different supportive services. 2. Disabled students with more severe conditions need more supportive services than their mildly disabled counterparts. 3. It costs more to educate severly disabled students than mildly disabled students. Adjusting for specific supporting services costs required to adequately educate special education students, the financial weighting for normal, low, median, and high disabled students were: visually disabled 1: 1: 3.5: 2.7; physically disabled 1: 1: 1.6: 6.9; mentally disabled 1: 1.5: 2.1: 4.7; and auditorially disabled 1: 1.9: 3.0: 11.7 respectively. 4. The government special education funding formula should be developped based on the level of severity, if the goal is to reach higher educational equity.