🤝 Special Needs Schools in Bengaluru

Free school for visually impaired students from kindergarten upward, founded 1998 by Acharya Sri Rakum; residential, with higher-education support.

Run by the Mathru Educational Trust since 2001; free residential school for blind children, with a Braille transcription centre and vocational training.

Free education, food and accommodation for visually challenged children from preschool to Class X; also runs a rural training centre in Kanakapura taluk.

Home and school run by Franciscan Sisters for the care, education and rehabilitation of visually impaired children.

National-award-winning trust founded 1997; integrated primary and secondary schooling for visually impaired students, plus a residential school for hearing-impaired children (2019) and higher-education support.

Run by the Deaf Aid Society (formed 1967); school for hearing-impaired children from prep KG to Class X, inaugurated 1973, largely free.

Started 1988 by the Bangalore Speech and Hearing Trust at the Dr. S.R. Chandrasekhar Institute; oral method, Kannada and English medium, admission from age 4.

Established 1977; clinical services for hearing, speech and communication disabilities, and courses including BASLP and teacher training for the hearing impaired.

Free residential school for hearing-impaired children run by the Mathru Educational Trust; the trust also runs a day-care centre for children with multiple disabilities and a deafblind centre.

Education, therapy (physio, occupational, speech) and vocational training for children with cerebral palsy, autism and other disabilities; runs the Rainbow Centre for autism.

Special school and centre for children on the autism spectrum at Kirloskar Colony, run by the ASHA Charitable Trust.

Communication DEALL — early-intervention programme for young children with autism and communication and developmental delays.

Centre and school for children with autism spectrum disorder in Domlur Layout.

Established 1972 by the Sisters of Notre Dame; special school for children with intellectual disability, around 200 students.

Special school for children with intellectual disability run by the Sisters of St Joseph of Cluny, established 1982.

Special school for children with intellectual disability, established 2009 by the Franciscan Sisters.