Love at Tamkang University - Resource Center for Blind and Visually Impaired Students

Tamkang University’s Resource Centre for Blind and Visually Impaired Students (淡江大學盲生資源中心) is not only directed at visually impaired students, but also at the school’s 175 students with various disabilities. A number of services are available at the center; students can apply for braille-book production, coursework guidance and reading assistance; photocopy documents; use computers; engage in part-time work; and rest between classes. The interaction between tutors and students is personalized and friendly, like the relationship between two good friends.

In 1980, the former President of Tamkang University, Zhang Jian-beng (張建邦), began accepting visually impaired students into the departments of Chinese and History. It was several years later before the Resource Center for Blind and Visually Impaired Students was formally established and oversaw by the school’s Office of Academic Affairs. The center started as a small university society over 20 years ago. Today, the scale has expanded from that small classroom to a space of 1322 m2, which boasts a pristine environment and vast array of equipment. 

The main goal of Tamkang University’s Resource Centre for Blind and Visually Impaired Students is to facilitate greater convenience in learning. The tutors provide assistance as needed, and in addition to a separate large-scale examination room that can produce test papers with especially large characters, the school still hopes that students with disabilities can study alongside their classmates. In an effort to maximize assistance for students with disabilities and provide an optimal study environment, teachers from other resource centers within the school exchange information with each other through the internet and raise various events.

Love at Tamkang University
- Resource Center for Blind and Visually Impaired Students
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(以下是中文對照)
愛在淡江 盲生資源中心

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淡江大學盲生資源中心服務的對象不僅是視障生，而是全校一百七十多位的身心障礙生，學生們除了能來此中心申請點字書製作、影印文件、電腦使用、打工、申請課業輔導或伴讀同學外，也能做為下節課開始前的休息處，輔導老師與學生間的互動親暱不疏遠，彷彿如朋友一般。

淡江大學校長張建邦從就一九八○年開始於中文系及歷史系招收視障生，幾年後，便正式成立盲生資源中心，並由教務處督導。從早年的學校社團「啟明社」萌芽，盲生中心發展至今已超過二十年，規模當然也從狹窄的社團教室，轉為今日約四十坪的空間，環境與設備也都新穎、齊全。

盲生資源中心的設立主要目的是幫助身障生能在學習上更加方便，但輔導老師們也會依需要提供協助，除了大型考試時另設考場、特別製作放大字體的試卷外，校方仍希望身障生能與同班同學一起學習。為了讓身障生能得到更好的幫助，其他如淡大校內有資源中心的學校老師間，皆會在網路上彼此交流、交換資訊，並不定期舉辦各種活動，希望能藉此讓學生有更好的學習環境。