Autism support
Vetted shadow teachers, special educators and tutors for children with autism spectrum condition, at school and at home, working to the plans your child's clinicians set.
Educational support and BCBA-supervised ABA, working alongside your child's clinicians.
What usually helps
4 things the adults around the child can do
Who we place
Shadow teachers, special educators and remedial tutors
Where
Present in 55 cities, online tutoring anywhere in India
Chapter 1
What a child with autism usually needs
Predictable routines and visual schedules that survive the school run
Sensory-aware handling of noise, crowds and transitions
Structured teaching of communication and social skills
One consistent approach across home, school and any therapy programme
Chapter 2
How a shadow teacher or special educator helps
A shadow teacher or special educator for an autistic child delivers structured learning and daily routines, carries the strategies set by the child's speech-language pathologist, occupational therapist or behaviour analyst into the ordinary day, and keeps a daily record so that everyone working with the child sees the same picture.
Chapter 3 · Where our role ends
ABA is the one therapy Special Minds provides, with every programme designed and supervised by a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA). Speech therapy and occupational therapy are delivered by separately qualified practitioners; our shadow teachers and special educators work to those plans, and diagnosis stays with the child's developmental paediatrician or psychologist.
Special Minds provides BCBA-supervised ABA therapy at home, at school, online and at a centre, and our guides explain how ABA works and how to judge a programme.
Chapter 4
Your child's team, working as one
With your consent, we build the child-support profile with the school and with any therapist, psychologist or paediatrician already involved, so the professional arrives knowing the plan rather than guessing at it. Monthly reports go to you, and to them if you wish.
Family
Sets the priorities, knows the child best
School
Class teacher, inclusion coordinator, IEP
Clinicians
Assess, diagnose and set therapy plans
Our professional
Carries the plan into every hour of the day
Your child
One plan, one record, everyone reading it
Chapter 5
Questions families ask
Can a shadow teacher or special educator help a child with autism?+
A shadow teacher or special educator for an autistic child delivers structured learning and daily routines, carries the strategies set by the child's speech-language pathologist, occupational therapist or behaviour analyst into the ordinary day, and keeps a daily record so that everyone working with the child sees the same picture.
Is this therapy?+
No. ABA is the one therapy Special Minds provides, with every programme designed and supervised by a Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA). Speech therapy and occupational therapy are delivered by separately qualified practitioners; our shadow teachers and special educators work to those plans, and diagnosis stays with the child's developmental paediatrician or psychologist.
Do you have Hindi-speaking professionals experienced with autism spectrum condition?+
Where the candidate pool allows, yes. English is always guaranteed; Hindi and regional-language placements are arranged on the brief.
Where in India?+
We are present in 55 cities across India, including Mumbai, Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, and remedial tutoring also runs online anywhere in India. Choose your city below for local schools, neighbourhoods and languages.
By city
Autism support in your city
We are present in 55 cities across India. Choose yours for the local schools, neighbourhoods and languages.
- Agra
- Ahmedabad
- Amritsar
- Bengaluru
- Bhopal
- Bhubaneswar
- Chandigarh
- Chennai
- Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar
- Coimbatore
- Dehradun
- Delhi NCR
- Dhanbad
- Ghaziabad
- Guwahati
- Gwalior
- Hubballi-Dharwad
- Hyderabad
- Indore
- Jabalpur
- Jaipur
- Jamshedpur
- Jodhpur
- Kanpur
- Kochi
- Kolkata
- Kota
- Kozhikode
- Lucknow
- Ludhiana
- Madurai
- Mangaluru
- Meerut
- Mumbai
- Mysuru
- Nagpur
- Nashik
- Noida
- Patna
- Pimpri-Chinchwad
- Prayagraj
- Pune
- Raipur
- Rajkot
- Ranchi
- Solapur
- Srinagar
- Surat
- Thane
- Thiruvananthapuram
- Tiruchirappalli
- Vadodara
- Varanasi
- Vijayawada
- Visakhapatnam
Further reading
Reading on autism
Moving from primary to middle school: a transition plan for special needs in classes 5 and 6School · 10 min read
What is ABA therapy? A plain-English guide for parents in IndiaABA · 11 min read- ABA therapy for autism in India: how it works, who provides it and what to expectABA · 11 min read
Does ABA therapy work? What the research says, and what it does notABA · 10 min read
How many hours of ABA therapy does a child need?ABA · 10 min read
What age should ABA therapy start? Toddlers, school-age children and teenagersABA · 10 min read
Talk to a specialist
Not sure what your child needs yet?
Many families come to us before there is a diagnosis. Tell us what the school has said, and we will say plainly whether we can help, or whether a clinician should come first.