Ceylon School for the Deaf & Blind
The Ceylon School for the Deaf and Blind (CSDB) is managed by a Board of Trustees, chaired by the Bishop of Colombo of the Church of Ceylon (Anglican Communion). The School for the Deaf and the School for the Blind at Ratmalana and Nuffield School for the Deaf and Blind at Kaithady, Jaffna are the three schools managed by the CSDB, which pioneered free education and vocational training to the hearing and sight impaired children in the country. It is an Approved Charity and donations to the schools are tax exempted.

School for the Blind
The School for the Blind, Ratmalana is an ever expanding community filled with love, laughter, fun and learning. We are specially geared towards assisting our members succeed in their life journey.

School for the Deaf
The School for the Deaf is the pioneer institution in Sri Lanka for hearing-impaired children that provides an all-encompassing education from Primary to GCE Ordinary Level and vocational training to equip children to be self-supporting citizens.

Nuffield School for the Deaf and Blind
The Nuffield School for the deaf & blind in Kaithady, Jaffna, founded in 1956, provides specialized education for children with hearing and visual impairments in Northern Sri Lanka.
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Donations
Make a contribution to the Ceylon School for the Deaf & Blind and help us brighten the lives of the students under our care.

General Donations
Make a contribution to the Ceylon School for the Deaf & Blind and help us brighten the lives of the students under our care.

Sponsor a Child
Sponsor the cost of a child’s Education, Welfare and Vocational training provided free of charge.

Meal Donations
Celebrate your birthday, anniversary or remember a loved one by donating a meal to us.
Our Focus
Vision
To maintain the position as the pioneering institution in the country, transforming the lives of the visual and auditory impaired children from being dependent individuals to responsible citizens that contribute to society.
Mission
To provide a professionally managed service using quality trained manpower, appropriate technology and methods, to facilitate and enable those lives that have been placed in our care.
All b’out Children Montessori
All b’out Children Montessori was started here at Ratmalana by Mrs. Nirmaleenie Gupta who is a highly qualified Montessori teacher since 1973 from Minnesota USA. The school is an authentic AMI Montessori school where teachers are called directresses as they guide the children with age approximate material. The learning materials are given to each individual child as each child learns and understands differently. All b’out Children Montessori School is the first AMI School that is integrating normal children with hearing and visually impaired (deaf and blind) children in Sri Lanka. It is gratifying to see both groups of children, socializing and cooperating harmoniously with each other. Children are guided in how to be polite, to care for their environment, to be orderly, to be independent. The most informative age to start a child is when they are 2 1/2 or 3 years old. We hope to give the children a very good beginning in their life in the three complete years before starting grade school.
Testimonials
My name is Bryan Kingston. You may recognise me as the person who won Rs. 2 million at the Sirasa Lakshapathi Television Programme in 2021. I got the opportunity …
My name is Lakmini Wasana and I am a past pupil of The School for the Blind, Ratmalana. I joined the school in grade 3, and continued on up …
I am Lasal Nirmin Samarajeewa, currently pursuing a honorary degree in Social Studies at the University of Colombo. I studied at The School for the Blind, Ratmalana for a …
My name is Monica Peiris and I am currently the Vice Principal of The School for the Blind, Ratmalana. I enrolled in the school in 1979 directly to grade …
My name is Namin Udan Kanchana and I am currently a second year Law student at the University of Colombo. I am where I am today mainly because of …
Audiology Centre
Ratmalana Audiology Centre (RAC) located at the premises of the School for the Deaf, provides hearing tests, speech and language therapy and many more services free of charge to all CSDB students and at very minimal cost to the general public. RAC is a corporate social responsibility project of Dialog Axiata (Pvt.) Ltd.
