The Department for Empowerment of Differently-Abled and Senior Citizens is conducting training programmes for special teachers to teach visual and hearing impaired students at Helen Keller Government Training Centre for Visually Impaired (VI) and Hearing Impaired (HI) in Tilak Nagar. This special D.Ed programme is equivalent to the regular D.Ed course. The courses offered are D.Ed Special Education-Visual Impairment (for teaching visually impaired students) and D.Ed Special Education-Hearing Impairment (for teaching hearing impaired students).
After the training, the Special Teachers can work in Government and aided Schools run by grants from Department for Empowerment of Differently-Abled and Senior Citizens, work in regular CBSE Schools as teachers and as resource persons in Rehabilitation Centres under Sarva Shikshana Abhiyan. They will be eligible to apply for TET, CTET and other exams conducted by the Education Department