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Special Children School Karsaz

INTRODUCTION:
The Special Children School Karsaz was established in 1993 in a bungalow with the aim to provide education, training & rehabilitation to the physically/ mentally retarded and hearing impaired children. Subsequently, two more adjacent bungalows were annexed to it in 1999 to accommodate special children of the civilian employees of Pakistan Navy as well as general civilians. Owing to the increasing number of special children and lack of appropriate academic-cum-therapeutic facilities, the need was felt to establish a proper Special Children School with requisite infrastructure and facilities. Thus a full-fledged Special Children School with state of the art facilities was constructed in 2005 at the present site.
MISSION:
The mission of the school is to provide conducive therapeutic and learning environment for promoting optimum development of the mental and physical assets possessed by the special children in order to maximize their integration with the society.
TYPES OF DISABILITIES:
Following six categories of disabilities are catered in special children school:
(1) Mental Retardation (M.R)
(2) Hearing Impairment (H.I)
(3) Physically Handicapped (P.H)
(4) Multiple Handicapped (M.H)
(5) Learning Disability (L.D)
(6) Visual Impairment (V.I) (Introduced from Academic Session 2008-09)
The Special Children School has highly qualified faculty to look after/educate all the above mentioned categories of students. All the Special Educators have Master Degree in their respective fields.
FACILITIES PROVIDED BY THE SCHOOL:
The School is presently providing following facilities required for the welfare & rehabilitation of special children:
(1) Hydrotherapy
(2) Physiotherapy
(3) Sensory Integration Therapy
(4) Speech Therapy
(5) Occupational Therapy
(6) Behavior Therapy
(7) Vocational Rehabilitation (Wood Work, Pot Painting, Jute Work, Tailoring, Fabric painting etc).
(8) Lab facilities-computer and science labs
(9) Fine Arts
(10) Parents Counseling
(11) Home based Programmes
(12) Individual Educational Programmes
(13) Multiple professional assessments
(14) Sports
(15) Medical facility
(16) Transport (pick & drop service)
(17) Library




In the new building, the School flourished successfully in the subsequent years and the strength of the students has reached
260, out of which 08 students are at SSC level and 05 students at HSSC level. The strength of students at SSC and HSSC
levels is bound to increase in the coming years. The School took the initiative to get it affiliated at SSC level with the
Federal Board of Intermediate & Secondary Education Islamabad in 2006 and got affiliation with the Board in the same
year. 09 students of the School appeared in SSC FBISE Examination 2008 (05 SSC Composite and 04 SSC Part-I) and
all of them have passed their Examination with A-1 grade. The vision of the School could not be limited to SSC level only,
for further growth & development of the School and to provide maximum rehabilitation to the special children, the need was
felt for its affiliation with FBISE at HSSC level. The school got its affiliation with the FBISE in 2008. Five students will
appear in HSSC Final Examination in the year 2009.

Chairperson Federal Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Islamabad visiting SCS, Karsaz

Special Children celebrating World Disable Day