- The history of Special Education is not very old in Pakistan.
- At the time of independence only Three schools were working with children having Special Needs.
- The First School was established in 1906 to cater to the educational needs of children with Visual Impairment.
- In 1920 the Second school was opened in Karachi for deaf children.
- The parents of deaf children have formed a society called the Deaf and Dumb Welfare Society which also established a school named Gung Mahal (Palace of Deaf)
- (Hameed, 2003).
- In 1959, for the first time The National Commission presented the Education of Special People to the Government agenda.
- Progress was seen between 1983-1992 when the UNO declared this time the “Decade of Disabled Persons”
- Pakistan National Policy for the Education and Rehabilitation of the Disabled was formulated in 1985 and improved in1988.
- Instantly, the Directorate General of Special Education runs 56 Institutions focused on the educational and rehabilitation of children with Special Needs.