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BOBBY ANDREWS, planning co-ordinator in the Office of the Chief Secretary, has said a 2021 assessment of institutions providing education for special-needs children in Tobago showed more than 74 children are still on a waiting list.

Andrews was speaking at a public consultation on special needs at the Scarborough Library, Tobago, on February 19. The event was hosted by the Division of Education, Research and Technology.

In Tobago, the Happy Haven School in Signal Hill and the Tobago School for the Deaf, Speech and Language Impaired in Bon Accord both cater to special-needs children.