Welcome To DR.MGR INSTITUTE OF

SPECIAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH

Dr.MGR Institute for Special Education and Research is an institution under Dr.MGR Home & Higher Secondary School for the Speech & Hearing Impaired offering B.Ed Degree course in Special Education (Hearing Impairment).

Dr. MGR, the former Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu bequeathed his MGR Garden where he lived for more than 40 years, for the education and rehabilitation of persons with speech and hearing impairment. As per the wishes expressed in his will Dr. MGR Home and Higher Secondary School was established in January 1990 and has successfully helped to educate and rehabilitate hundreds of persons with speech and hearing impairment over the past 30 years.

As a need was felt to establish a training college offering B. Ed. degree course in special education in order to train teachers to teach students who are deaf and hard of hearing, Dr. MGR Institute of special education was established after the required permission from the Government of Tamil Nadu, approval from the Rehabilitation Council of India and affiliation from the Tamil Nadu Teachers Education University was obtained.

The institute also serves as a study center for B.Ed Special Education of the Universities in India offering B.Ed Degree Course in Special Education - Hearing Impairment as a distance education programme.