During June 15-16, the first Educational Rehabilitation Summit Forum is held in Shanghai.
During June 15-16, the first Educational Rehabilitation Summit Forum was held in Shanghai by ECNU’s Key Laboratory of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Ministry of Education (MoE) and School of Special Education, Binzhou Medical University.
Nearly 280 experts and scholars from 45 universities, 57 schools of special education and 25 rehabilitation institutions attended the forum to discuss on topics including the development of the educational rehabilitation major, professional training and talents cultivation of educational rehabilitation.
Prof. Huang Zhaoming (L), Director of ECNU's Key Laboratory of Speech and Hearing Sciences, is awarded a certificate for his contribution to China's special eucation by Mr. Xie Jingren, Deputy Secretary General of Chinese Foundation for Teacher Development, at the forum.
Nearly 280 experts and scholars around the country attend the forum.
ECNU became the first university in the country to have received the permission of the MoE to set up the bachelor degree major of educational rehabilitation In March, 2013. It is confirmed that the new major will be supported by ECNU’s three key laboratories of MoE, i.e. Key Laboratory of Speech and Hearing Sciences, Key Laboratory of Adolescent Health Assessment and Exercise Intervention, and Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics.
Experts deliver speeches at the forum.
According to Prof. Du Xiaoxin, Dean of Department of Speech and Hearing Rehabilitation Science, the new major aims at training double-qualified professionals obtaining both rehabilitation skills and special education teaching skills. As it can meet the great needs of China’s rehabilitation industry, the new major won full applause from the experts present. Prof. Sun Xibin, deputy director of National Rehabilitation Research Center for Deaf Children, pointed out that it would give a great push to China’s rehabilitation development. And Prof. Chu Lixi, Dean of School of Rehabilitation Medicine, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, praised that the new major could fill in the vacancy of the cultivation of inter-disciplinary talents in education and rehabilitation.
Written by: Shi Yangyang
Edited by: Liu Jinyu
