The Special Education Programme at the University of Karachi is principally a human resource development activity, geared to producing professionally qualified manpower urgently needed for the promotion and development of special education in the country.

The programme was activated at the end of 1988 with a masters programme in special education to train teachers for special children. Since then the programme is running with reasonable success and has produced five batches of professionally trained graduates with a masters degree. The graduates are being absorbed, principally, in the institutions of Karachi and the feedback received, indicates, that their presence is responsive to a felt demand and slowly but steadily they have started the process of fulfilling the need for trained personnel in the field.