ABOUT US
It was in 1961 that a benevolent couple Late Mrs. and Dr. S.P. Wanchoo (Director, Medical & Health, Rajasthan), inspired by a calling of conscience decided to set up a school for the physically challenged children especially the hearing impaired. The couple dreamt and so many other like-minds and equally zealous persons namely Late Mrs. and Mr. K.G. Garg (Chairman, UIT, Ajmer), Late Dr.G.S. Jhala (Superintendent, JLN Hospital, Ajmer), Late Mrs. and Mr. G.S. Toshniwal (Industrialist), Late Mrs. and Mr. S.P.S. Bhandari (IAS), Late Dr. Ellis David, Late Mr.Daanmal Mathur (Vice-Principal, Mayo College), Late Mr. M.N. Bhargava, Late Ms.Mukta Bhatt, Late Mr.Puran S. Mathur, Late Begum Yusuf A. Shah and Late Mr. J.Y. Messy came forward and joined the venture to make these special children a part of the quintessential society by providing them free academic and vocational education with the objective to earn a livelihood for themselves when they grow-up and to live a respectable life. We will always remain indebted to Late Mr.Puran S. Mathur and his family for the generous donation of initial land.
General:
The Deaf & Dumb School (in early 60’s it was called so and has been popularly known as such ever since) had a very humble beginning as it was started in a rented room with one teacher & two boys. It was recognised by the Govt. of Rajasthan in 1964. Since then, we have come a long way and we now have a total of 263 boys & girls students out of which 138 are boarders. This is the only school in Rajasthan to have both boys and girls hostel facilities and is considered to be one of the best managed schools. The school has Class Rooms, Audio-Visual Room, Speech Therapy Room, Computer Lab., Complete Skill Development, Arts & Craft and Vocational facility Rooms & Block, Home Science Lab., etc. etc. and Dining Room, separate Hostel facilities for boys & girls, Library, Gym, various Indoor Games Rooms, Big Playground, School Bus, Admin Block, a few staff quarters etc. etc.
Education:
The school which totally imparts Free Education follows its own syllabus till 7th class & then follows syllabus up to 12th as prescribed by Rajasthan Board of Secondary Education, Ajmer (NCERT). The syllabus includes English, General Hindi, Social Science, General Science, Mathematics, History, Home Science, Public Administration and Drawing. Special emphasis is given to Indian Sign Language.
Several Hearing Impaired (HI) Qualified & Trained Teachers & other teachers (all trained in Sign Language) are taking classes which is helping in total communication and in totality.
The management aspires to affiliate School for the Deaf with international schools to upgrade the education standards. It is a call for organisations allied and similar, to help improve the quality of education so that these special children are enabled to be independent of their parents/ caretakers.
