Every learner, properly supported

The Department of Special Education and Counselling, Faculty of Education and Human Development.

What we work on

Inclusive classrooms
Learning diversity and special educational needs
Counselling in schools
Educational, developmental and pastoral guidance
Speech and language
Communication needs across the school years
Behaviour and wellbeing
Positive behavioural support for pupils and teachers
A teaching session on inclusive education

Message from the Head

Inclusion is not a policy statement; it is a timetable, a seating plan, a referral that goes to the right person in the right week. Our teaching and our research both start from the ordinary machinery of a school, because that is where a pupil with additional needs is either supported or is not.

We prepare teachers, SEN co-ordinators and school counsellors, and we work alongside mainstream and special schools on whole-school inclusion and guidance.

Professor Cheung Ka Wai
Head, Department of Special Education and Counselling

Dr Wong Yuen Han

Associate Professor
Educational and school counselling
Speech, language and communication needs

Professor Cheung Ka Wai

Professor and Head of Department
Inclusive education and learning diversity
Positive behavioural support

Study with us

Undergraduate students in a workshop
Undergraduate
Bachelor of Education programmes with a strand on supporting learners with diverse needs in mainstream classrooms.
Postgraduate students at work
Postgraduate
Master of Arts in Special Educational Needs and Inclusive Education, for serving teachers and school support staff.

Department news and events

Partner schools and organisations

Education Bureau, Special Education Division
Equal Opportunities Commission
Hong Kong Council of Social Service
Quality Education Fund
Partner mainstream and special schools