Families who have children born with special needs are often at a loss as to what needs to be done to help in their development.

A list of some of the scope for special needs as a service to be offered:

• conducts diagnostic screening and psychological and educational assessment of children, adolescents and adults;
• designs and implements intervention programmes/modules and conducts individual and group therapy for children, adolescents and adults with special needs;
• designs and implements training and home management programmes for parents;
• provides consultation, counselling and referral services to parents and teachers;
• monitors and trains teachers in the designing and implementation of intervention programmes at all levels (early intervention, elementary, inclusive, pre-vocational and vocational programmes)