Welcome to Suneden Special School

Overview

Suneden Special School was founded in 1943. It is a private, low-fee paying, non-denominational school that caters for children with intellectual and multiple disabilities. The children in the school are aged between 5 and 21 years.

Suneden is located in Mitchell Park, which is a central-southern suburb of Adelaide, South Australia.

Suneden prides itself on providing a caring and educationally stimulating environment for its 40 – 50 students. With small class sizes and a high staff to student ratio, educational programmes are tailored to suit the individual child.

We have close links with a number of external agencies to assist us with our provision of programmes, including Disability SA, Autism SA, Novita, Minda Inc., Respite Services and various workplace providers including Bedford Industries and Orana.  We offer practicum placements to students undertaking University degrees including Teaching, Disability Studies, Psychology, Speech Pathology, Occupational Therapy and Medicine.   We also offer placements to students undertaking TAFE courses and to year 11 & 12 students participating in community studies or work experience.

Philosophy

Our philosophy is based on the principles that our students have the right to:

• Dignity
• Respect
• Inclusion within our society
• An appropriate curriculum which is as close as practicable to that provided in all schools
• Special programmes that enable the above to be achieved