Brief History about the School
Demonstration School for the deaf (Demodeaf) is a public basic special school which was established over fifty years ago by Andrew Foster an African American for education of deaf children in its catchment area.
After much struggle to have the school established at Christiansborg in Osu-Accra without success, he moved to Mampong-Akuapem where he was gracefully received by the late Chief, Nana Otu Anobah Sasraku II, who gave out a private accommodation to be used by the School.
Consequently, the school was moved into the residence from Accra in January 1959, the enrolment then was thirty-seven (37) pupils. The school was named Ghana Mission School for the Deaf popularly known as the main school. The first Ghanaian Teacher was Mr. S.N. Tetteh Ocloo now in the US.
In May 1962, the government of the late President Kwame Nkrumah took over the school for the deaf in Mampong-Akuapem. In 1965, the specialist Teacher Training College was established to train the teachers to handle persons with disabilities especially in the three dominant areas: hearing impairment, visual impairment, and intellectual disability.
The Demonstration School for the Deaf was also established in 1967 with thirty-nine (39) deaf children to serve as a practical or demonstration school for the college. In the same year, land acquired by the Nkrumah government was developed and the pupils moved in from the rented facility and the School gradually phased out the Ghana Mission School for the Deaf (the main school)
Demonstration School for the Deaf which started with a few pupils can now boast of a population of four hundred and seventy (470) pupils, i.e. two hundred and eighty (280) boys and one hundred and ninety (190) girls whose ages range between four (4) years and twenty-five (25) years. It is gratifying to note that, the classrooms and dormitories with other facilities were the sole efforts of the then CPP government headed by the late Dr. Kwame Nkrumah in collaboration with the British Government under Queen Elizabeth. The motto of the school is “Together we build”.
Having the aim of working in consonance with our motto, we always put in our maximum to work in unity, peace, and solidarity. The vision of the school is to produce deaf scholars who would be socially, emotionally, economically, psychologically, and academically upright. The school occupies a land area of 17.7 acres. It had the privilege of enjoying the middle school Programme until it was gradually replaced by the New Educational Reform of 1987 (FCUBE), the pupils have however enjoyed free education till now. The school was earlier on under the administration of the college until 1992 when the college was moved to merge with the University of Education, Winneba, it then became autonomous.