Education is the fundamental right of every child. The educational needs of exceptional children are different from those of the other children in the society. Archdiocese of Changanacherry has always stood with the marginalized and has made all attempts to empower them. In order to fulfill the educational needs of the disabled persons, the agency planned to start schools for them. ‘Ashabhavan’, Home for the mentally challenged was the first in this attempt. It was established in 1973. At present the agency runs 17 schools for the mentally challenged and 3 for the physically challenged.

Educating the mentally challenged is really a challenging field and only highly qualified professionals can conduct the programme successfully. The greatest challenge faced by the agency was the lack of sufficient number of qualified teachers. Till recently there was not even a single college offering B Ed(MR) programme in Kerala. At this era of crisis, His grace Mar Joseph Powathil the Archbishop of Changanacherry initiated the sprouting of special teacher education college in the Archdiocese. The college was established in 2006 in the premises of SJB College of Education as a memorial of the Golden Jubilee of the Archdiocese of Changanacherry.

The institution is approved by the Govt. of Kerala & RCI and is affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University. We are proud to assert that this is only the second college of special education in Kerala.

Vision & Mission
The vision of the college is to ensure equal educational opportunity for disabled and to make productive people by focusing on their abilities.

We hope to draw out the potentialities of special children in that they live independently to the maximum extent possible in an Inclusive, Barrier free and Right Based society through constant professional endeavors.

The college educates and trains human resources to enable them to acquire knowledge and develop competencies and skills to impact education and training effectively to all children with mental retardation. The college prepares special teachers as agents of change in our society to break down the negative attitudes of community towards disability and moving towards normalization.