Con Amore School

Con Amore School (for children with special needs) is an NPO organization in Kempton Park in the field of education and therapy for children with complex disabilities. Con Amore School was established in 1975. Over the decades it has served thousands of children providing vocationally-based education involved with occupational therapists, speech therapists and social workers. Con Amore School currently serves approximately 513 children with complex disabilities, additionally providing them with social welfare and feeding support, transport, assistive devices for mobility and communication, among others. Beneficiaries are drawn from a 60-km radius around Greater East Rand. The school caters only for learners who are severely and profoundly intellectually impaired. Their impairments are often as a result of conditions such as neurodevelopmental disorders, autism spectrum disorders, various syndromes (e.g. Downs syndrome), traumatic brain injuries, birth complications etc. Many of the...