The Central Resource Centre for Special Education

The Central Resource Centre for Special Education is a special education assessment and resource centre in the Gaborone area of Botswana. Its role in diagnostic assessment was described by the Ministry of Child Welfare and Basic Education in May 2025. Speaking in Gaborone, the ministry's Acting Permanent Secretary, Mmamiki Kamanakao, said that the varied factors behind neurocognitive challenges among children were reflected in "the increasing referrals for diagnostic assessment at the central resource centre and satellite assessment centres". She was speaking at the launch of training for "champions" in the Penn Computerised Neurocognitive Battery (PNCB), a screening tool, run by the ministry with the University of Pennsylvania and Botswana Baylor Children's Clinical Services. Educational psychologists, speech pathologists and special educators were invited to train in administering it. The ministry said that screening of learners with special needs had been held back by a lack of validated tools and by teachers' limited competence in screening, and that validated screening would help teachers build individual learning programmes. The Ministry of Child Welfare and Basic Education is the government ministry responsible for child welfare and for pre-primary, primary and secondary schooling in Botswana. Gaborone is the capital and largest city of Botswana, with 246,325 inhabitants at the 2022 census. The centre has not published its address, telephone number, opening hours or how referrals are made, so enquiries are best made through the ministry before travelling.

Gaborone, Botswana
Gaborone

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