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What's the specialty of special education?
Special education majors in universities learn the basic theories, professional knowledge and rehabilitation techniques of special education.

1. Psychology and education of special children: Students will learn the characteristics of psychological development, cognitive ability, emotional behavior and educational needs of special children. Understanding the characteristics of these special children is helpful to formulate targeted education plans and teaching methods.

2. Educational evaluation of special children: Students will learn how to evaluate the education of special children, including using various evaluation tools and techniques to evaluate their learning disabilities, development level and adaptability. The evaluation results can provide a basis for making personalized education plans.

3. Management and organization of special education: Students will learn the management and organization principles of special education, including the administration of special education schools, the allocation of educational resources, teamwork and so on. Learn how to effectively organize and manage special education institutions to ensure the rational use of educational resources and the training of teachers.

4. Special education laws and policies: Students will learn laws, regulations and policy documents in the field of special education, and understand the policy background and relevant provisions of special education. Learn how to make special education plans according to laws and regulations to safeguard the rights and interests of special children.

The employment prospects of special education are as follows:

1, professional definition: this major needs to understand and respect special children, have the ability of psychological counseling and sign language expression, have certain ability of behavior correction for special children, and have professional skills of psychological counseling and treatment for special children. For example, in hearing and speech rehabilitation, autistic children are educated and rehabilitated to help special children return to the mainstream society.

2. Training objectives: This major trains teachers who have all-round development in morality, intelligence, physique and aesthetics, good professional ethics and humanistic accomplishment, strong humanistic care, fraternity consciousness and modern special education concept, master the basic theory and knowledge of special education, meet the needs of special children's education, teaching and rehabilitation training, have skilled professional skills and are engaged in special education.

3. Employment direction: mainly for special education schools, ordinary schools, special education classes, rehabilitation institutions, disabled persons' federations and special education and training institutions, engaged in the education, teaching, rehabilitation training, service and management of special children.