PRINCIPALS of two Corporate Area-based special education institutions — Marie Atkins Early Childhood and Maranatha Early Childhood Basic schools — are appealing for assistance to expand their campuses as they move to better accommodate an increasing number of students with special needs.

When the Jamaica Observer visited the institutions on Friday, the school heads insisted that the upgrades are an urgent necessity that will allow for better physical and educational support of the needs of all students as the institutions strive to ensure an inclusive and more accessible learning environment.

Principal of Marie Atkins Early Childhood School Ann Marie Chaplin argued that its situation is unique.