Our Services

Assessing a child or young adult is usually carried out at Kanyanya Centre on a Thursday afternoon between 1.00 and 4.00pm. The cost is 10,000 Ugandan shillings.

Assessments can occasionally be carried out at other times by booking an appointment at either Kanyanya or Seguku Centre.

All children are looked at on an individual basis and if it is felt that a child is not suitable for admittance to one of our centres, then suggestions will be made and a referral letter will be given for another more suitable place/s elsewhere.

There is an Early Learning Centre at Kanyanya Centre to help babies and very young children, as well as those with more complicated disabilities. This runs more like a clinic / nursery where they can come on suitable days and times tailored to individual requirements or of course full time.

Generally, a child will not be admitted to either main centre if they have not had at least some toilet training.

If a boarding place is required at Seguku, a child needs to at first be a day student for a minimum of 2 weeks. This serves as a trial to check that the child can manage boarding.

Both centres are open from 8.00 am to 4.00pm Ministry of Education term times. Kanyanya Centre is open as a day centre and Seguku Centre currently is just a boarding centre.

After assessing a child and if we have a place for them, most children are admitted on a termly basis paying fees.

For some children, sometimes the youngest ones or those with a more severe disability, they cannot manage to go to Kanyanya Centre every day from Monday to Friday. Whatever the reason, then days, times and fees can be tailored to individual requirements.

Guidance and counselling can be given to parents and caretakers. This can include helping a parent to understand a specific disability, help with attitude or coming to terms with having a child with a disability, or how to practically care for a special needs child etc.

Objectives are set for each child especially in basic numeracy and literacy. One child may be scribbling at the pre- reading / writing stage and may never get beyond that while another child may learn to read basic words and can write a small amount by themselves.

At the centres we provide relevant practical educational and vocational services to children with specific learning needs or multiple handicaps.

Self help skills. – Eg: bathing, dressing, brushing teeth etc.

Basic numeracy and literacy. – Eg: counting, using money, writing letters and words, recognizing their name and reading and writing it etc.

Other subjects. – Eg: RE, Science, sex and health education and Social Studies.

– Eg: Sewing, woodwork, cooking, making crafts, gardening and looking after animals and poultry etc.