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Khayelitsha Special Needs School

Location Khayelitsha, Cape Town
Field School for mentally disabled children
Director Mr. V.V Klaas
Website No website available

The infrastructure of the school has not been adapted appropriately to accommodate the needs of the new learners and this is vital to ensure the smooth running of the school. The entire school grounds need to be made attractive for learners. The environment of the school must create a welcome, secure, educational, healthy and practical venue for these children to learn in. The school has an enrolment of 420 learners who experience a range of disabilities. At present, the buildings and the playgrounds are not addressing the challenges that these learners are confronted with.

There are thirty nine educators, three therapists, fifteen teaching assistants, two administrators, two caretakers, a driver, a foreman and a catering manager. All employees are employed and remunerated by the Western Cape education Department (WCED). The school has a fully functional School Governing Body in place to ensure the smooth running of the school. Khayelitsha Special School is a school designated for learners with learning difficulties. The school population consists of four hundred and twenty pupils who are aged between 6 and 18. The disabilities are varied, and include Cerebral palsy, Epilepsy, Downs Syndrome, Speech Disorders, Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and many others. Some of the children have a specific learning problem, but others are profound and multiply handicapped.

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