2016 Annual Symposium for Special Educationsponsoredby Special Education Branch of Higher Education Society was held on Nov. 19^thand 20^thin Tianjin University of Sports. Meng Fanling, Dean of Special EducationSchool, Zhengzhou Institute ofTechnology(ZIT), attendedthe forum with adelegationof 4.

The Symposium was held by theSpecial Education Branch of Higher Education Societyand Tianjin University of Sports. More than 200 experts and scholars from Beijing Normal University, East China Normal University, Liaoning Normal University, Shanxi Normal University, etc. attended the Symposium.The theme was to reach the academic consensus, deepen the reform of special education and improve the quality of special education. Li Tianshun, Director of Special Education division of Ministry ofEducation, Han Yongmei, Director of Education and Employment division of China DisabledPersons’Federation, Professor Fang Junming, Director-General ofSpecialEducation Branch of Higher Education Society, made special reports on the problems and challenges in the reform and development of special education in China.Then the participants sharedtheirthoughts and ideas on the new findings, situations and problems in latest special education research.

Meng Fanling hosted Session 3.Guan Xuesong, a deaf teacher from ZIT made a report titled the Application of Sign LanguageLinguisticsin Teaching of Sign Language Translation.She discussed the importance of the study, the research methods and contents.In all, there were 11 deaf persons attended the symposium.To better understanding and communication, sign language translators were introduced into thesymposiumfor the first time.Inaddition, a blind teacher from Changchun University named Sun Yu made a speech.Disabledscholars gotinvolvedactively in the symposium.