About us

Snehanilayam special school, the first special school in Ernakulam District, 3rd in the State of Kerala, was started in 1977 and it is a charitable organization registered under the Societies Registration Act XII, 1955 with Reg.No ER.176/77.
At present there are 125 intellectually disabled students on the roll of the school.

Aim of the School
The first aim of the school is to train these intellectually disabled students in self-care, self management and self expression. The ultimate aim is to make these children good and productive members of the society with a certain amount of personal independence, in so far as their capabilities permit.

The Activities of the school
Snehanilayam special school was started in 1977, The school with 125 students on the roll is divided into thirteen divisions. That includes Pre- primary, Primary, Secondary, pre vocational and vocational units. The State syllabus for the special children is followed up to Secondary level. Academic subjects are taught according to each child’s ability. After due assessment, children with requisite ability are also being specially trained to appear for the public exams of National open school (NOS) syllabus for normal children. A speech therapy room, Physio- occupational therapy room, Sensory Integration Room, Computer lab are the other training units aiming at the integral development of the children.

However, much importance is given to its extracurricular activities such as Arts and Crafts, Music therapy, dance, band, chendamelam, Mind- Body exercises, yoga, sports, Scatting etc. The children complete with other special school in cultural programme and take part in Special Olympics at national state and zonal level. The dance group perform at various public as per the invitation. The school band and chendamelam invited to perform at public functions. All these activities enhance the mental and physical ability of the students. These events give them an opportunity to taste success and ability to accept failure.
As part of the curriculum children are trained to care for the earth and thus there is a vegetable garden by them .

The Vocational Training Unit started on a small scale in 1991. Gradually it grew and developed over the years. Now it has become a fully fledged Unit, There are 30 young adults including male and female woking in this unit. The main skill imparted is light carpentry. However other skills are not excluded .The main products are educational materials and wall decorations for K.B. and Nursery schools, gift items such as pen holders, letter and serviette stands, table mats, key chains, key holders, wall hangings, decorative jars and bottles and many other things too numerous to mention. The other two parts of this unit are Home Science and Home Management in which they make income generating products, such as pickles, juice, liquid soap, disinfectant etc. In Arets & Craft Unit, they make paper bags, jewellery, decorations etc.

The Faculty
The total strength of the staff members are 32 which include teaching & Non- teaching staff. There is a teacher in charge of each class which includes pre vocational units and the vocational unit. There is a Speech therapist, a Physio therapist, a dance therapist as full time faculties. There are part time teachers for band and sports and yoga and instrumental music. Four helpers take care of the children and do the cleaning. They are assisted by two of our mentally challenged students. It is a government mandate that we should have two handicapped employees. Including 2 drivers for the school bus the total staff is 32.
There are many people whose selfless service contribute much to the students which include parents and the other people of the Society.

We have an active P.T.A. and there are regular meetings with them, and there are class wise meetings where the parents of the children of each class have an interactive session with the Principal and the class teacher.