Months after Hurricane Melissa tore through western Jamaica, administrators and students at several special-needs institutions remain in a desperate battle for survival, grappling with a sluggish recovery that threatens to derail the education of the nation’s most vulnerable learners. One St Elizabeth-based early childhood institution has remained shuttered since the passage of the devastating storm, whose name the World Meteorological Organization last week struck from its list, while another institution in St Ann has phased its opening.