Dr. Cheng-Chien Chen is a professor at National Chia-Yi University, who got a Ph.D. from National Chang-Hwua University of Education, Taiwan.  He had some working experience in education including elementary teacher, associate researcher, and educational administrator of local government.  His Research Interests: his research interest lies in examining the impacts of behavioral and cognitive- behavioral modification on ADHD during the past years.  He is also particularly interested in what children with ADHD understand in educational situational settings and how teachers might be able to use that information when they communicate with parents of ADHD.  To date, his research has been mainly focusing on mental retarded children; however, his papers have actualized theory into important practicing implications for mental retarded children, as well as for hyperactive and off-task behavioral children.  He had published several textbooks such as Calligraphy Therapy –Theory, Programs and Practices, Assessing Children with Special Needs and assessment and evaluation such as Activity Rating Scales for elementary children and Activity Rating Scales for preschool children, Leadership Aptitude test, Chinese abilities test(co-worker) in Chinese edition at Taiwan area.  His Teaching Interests：behavior modification, assessment and evaluation for exceptional children, assessing strategies for children with special  needs, cognitive psychology , issues on special education, calligraphy therapy.  His Office Building: Education Building, Minghsiung Campus.

Dr. Jung-Chang Tang is an associate professor at National Chia-Yi University who got a Ph.D. from Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, USA .  He had published several papers in U.S.A. identified by Social Scientific Citation Index (SSCI).  He takes strong interests in behavior disorders, severe disabilities, and the transitional services for the secondary students.  He is a deep thinker who has good reputations on his professional achievements and on his contribution towards Buddhism.  Graduate students in this department admire his professional research ability and many of them become his pupils to provoke their research potentials.

Dr. Chiu-Hua Chiang is also known as Lotus Chiang.  She is the chair for this department.  She serves as the chair because she loves all the students and is willing to sacrifice her quality life for their sake.  Lotus Chiang is an associate professor at National Chia-Yi University who earned her Ed.D at the University of Northern Colorado University, U.S.A. in 1995.  She has been working with students with autism, severely emotional/behavioral disorders, and attention deficit hyperactivity disorders over ten years.  She works hard in solving the conflicts between the elementary schools and parents of exceptional children in Yuan-Chia areas which are under the supervision of this department.  Lotus loves exceptional children so she pushes hard for the elementary schools as well as the parents of exceptional children to make progresses.  She takes high interests in the practices and topics of parenting for the exceptional children, early intervention, ADHD, EBD, and autism.

Dr. Jui-Liang Jerry Chien, an associate professor at National ChiaYi University, earned his doctorate in special education at the University of South Dakota.  Dr. Chien’s current research interests focus on developing Intuition Teaching theory, and conducts applied Intuition Teaching research with his wife, Dr. Mei-Hua Rose Chang.  He publishes widely in the areas of teacher training and the treatment of learning disabilities/ behavioral disorders.

Dr. Mei-Hua Rose Chang is an assistant professor at National ChiaYi University.  Dr. Chang received her doctorate in special education from the University of South Dakota. With her husband, Dr. Jui-Liang Jerry Chien, she is developing Intuition Teaching strategies to enhance teachers’ teaching skills and increase teachers’ positive beliefs and attitudes toward their students.  Dr. Chang conducts applied Intuition Teaching and Cognitive Behavior Modification research with Dr. Chien and publishes widely in the areas of learning disabilities and teacher training programs.  To students, Jerry and Rose are two lovely married couple who treat the students like their own children.