Government Higher Secondary School for the Blind, Poonamallee

Run by the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary since the 1920s; one of India's best-known schools for the blind, with Braille, music and higher-secondary classes.

Sister school on the same campus, educating hearing-impaired children from nursery to Class 12 with a strong record of mainstreaming.

School for young deaf children founded 1969; teaches listening and spoken language from infancy so that children can join mainstream schools, free of charge.