In order to help students with disabilities adapt to school life, NCUE provides support services in terms of schoolwork, life, and schooling system transition counselling.

1. Schoolwork support services:

(1)Individual remedial teaching (difficult subjects):

The Resource Classroom aims to help students with disabilities with difficult subjects, such as psychology and educational tests, English, and statistics, and arranges individual tutors for students to help them with their progress.

(2)Examination service measures (translation upon clicking, amplified examination questions, etc.):

The Resource Classroom has designed a “Special Examination Service Form” to meet the needs of teachers and students and provide appropriate assistance according to the different types and degrees of students’ disabilities.

(3)Work-study students and volunteers assist with learning (text-to-speech, audio recording, translation upon clicking, note taking, etc.):

The Resource Classroom arranges regular shifts of work-study students and volunteers to assist students with disabilities with text-to-speech, audio recording, note taking, and translation upon clicking. At the same time, specific work-study students are arranged to assist students with disabilities with searching for information, etc.

(4)Textbook conversion:

Help to convert textbooks into braille or enlarged fonts, and convert written materials into electronic files.

(5)Provide assistantive equipments for borrowing.

(6)Application for special education award scholarships (provided by the Academic Affairs Office), and application for scholarships from off-campus units.

2. Life support services:

(1)Orientation and Mobility training:

In order to help students with severe or total blindness familiarise themselves with the campus environment as soon as possible, Taiwan Foundation for the Blind is usually invited to assist with orientation and mobility training.

(2)Organise extracurricular activities and fellowship:

To help students in special education become acquainted with, understand, and support each other, the Resource Classroom organises activities such as dinners, off-campus visits, and alumni experience sharing in public office examinations or teacher enrolment examinations for students at the beginning and end of each semester.

(3)Hold student forums:

In order to understand students’ learning efficiency in the classroom and effectively assist with it, the Resource Classroom regularly holds symposiums between counseling teachers and students to enable them to exchange views and to provide timely assistance.

(4)Psychological counselling (individual counselling, growth group):

In view of the personal troubles faced by students with disabilities, the Resource Classroom helps students refer to the Student Psychological Consulting and Counselling Centre of NCUE for individual consultation and participation in growth groups.

(5)Arrange accommodation and transportation on campus.

(6)Improve the accessible environment.

3. Support services concerning transition counseling:

The participation count for various services offered at NCUE’s resource room are detailed in Table 1, and the participation in support services are detailed in Table 2. For additional information, (please refer to the resource room activities webpage at

https://ncue7232105.wixsite.com/ncue/blank-7) snippets from these activities are as shown in Figures 1-4).

(1)Student transition notification services：The resource room also offer students comprehensive and ongoing transition counseling and services, incorporating individualized special education plans to assist students in achieving their transition goals, which may include independent living, social adaptation, participation, further education, or employment.

(2)Graduate transition notification and tracking services：The resource room is committed to provide transition services for students with disabilities after graduation, tailoring our support to meet each student's individual needs by linking them to resources related to further education, transfer to other institutions, employment, vocational training, and homecare.

Table 1. Number of participants in various support services in 2022

Table 2: Statistics of support services by the Resource Classroom

in 2022 for students with disabilities

4. The activities related to the guidance services provided by the Resource Classroom are announced to all students with disabilities on a Facebook group, and the students are encouraged to participate actively, as shown in Figure 5.