Contribution of Grandparents in Meeting Educational Challenges of Exceptional Child-Highlighting Ordeals and Confrontations in Local Context to Understanding Global Circumstances Prof. Dr. Anjum Bano Kazimi Munir Moosa Sadruddin Mumtaz Khowaja Abstract The present study evaluates the social, moral, emotional and economic contributions of grandparents towards the educational achievement of their grand children with exceptional needs. The study adopts mix research method, where survey method and qualitative method is used to collect data. 250 grandparents are selected through multi-purpose sampling, where purposive sampling is used to identify family with exceptional child/children with the support of Parents Teacher Association (PTA) of different schools, located within the city, while snowball sampling is used to select the respondents from Karachi, Pakistan. Questionnaire was designed with five main areas of disabilities, which was checked for internal reliability. The result reveals that grandparents are highly involved in supporting the education of special need children, particularly they are supportive in the area of homework, preparation of educational material, learning innovative things, self- help skills, support in implementing individualize education plan and in meeting educational expenses. Most of the economic and social needs are fulfilled by grandparents, particularly paternal grandparents, with additionally contribute in the education attainment of exceptional children. They morally support their own children to fill the gaps of detachment. However, they are emotionally under high pressure and go towards extreme acts to release their own children from their miseries. Key Words: Grandparents, Educational Challenges, Exceptional Child. Background Grandparents have a very important position in the family system in Pakistan. Although the modern trend suggest for the nuclear family, but still, value of grandparents remain the same. Their wisdom, knowledge and broader perspective are highly inspirational. All the decisions, particularly social and economic guidance, are influenced by grandparents. During transitional phase, living with their own children and experiencing productive interaction with grandchildren give strength and support to grandparents (Grassman & Whitaker, 2013). Their unconditional love, security, stability and positive values and beliefs are highly impactful for children. As the social interactions are boosting, societies are also experiencing alterations. Lack of mutual understanding, divorce, work pressure, all these led grandparents to play an integral role with more responsibilities in attending the needs of grand children. But when the child is born in a family with disability, many social problems arises, which are unbearable and intolerable to escape. At such stage, grandparents work as a sole provider of moral support. Majority of the family caregivers are above the age of sixty (Fujiura, 1998). They can also provide financial support to the family (Dunst & Trivette, 1986). In addition, many 51