🤝 Special Needs Schools in Chennai

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.

Tamil Nadu Government's residential school for blind students, taking children from across the state up to higher secondary.

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

Church of South India school for hearing-impaired students on Santhome High Road, up to higher secondary.

Residential home and school for speech- and hearing-impaired children at MGR Gardens, Ramavaram.

School on Dr. Radhakrishnan Salai for children with hearing impairment, intellectual disability, autism and deafblindness; academics and vocational training.

Higher secondary school for hearing-impaired students in TVS Colony, Anna Nagar West.

Founded 1985 (formerly the Spastics Society of India, Chennai); special school, therapy, early intervention and teacher training for children with cerebral palsy and multiple disabilities.

Model special school of the National Institute for Empowerment of Persons with Multiple Disabilities, with units for early intervention, cerebral palsy, deafblindness and autism.

School and vocational centre for children and young adults with autism.

Open school and remedial centre for children with specific learning disabilities and attention difficulties.

Association running remedial centres, assessments and teacher-training programmes for dyslexia since 1992.

Long-established special school and training centre for children with intellectual disability.

Special school for children with intellectual disability and autism.