Cerebral palsy support
Vetted shadow teachers, special educators and tutors for children with cerebral palsy, 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 cerebral palsy usually needs
Seating, positioning and movement breaks exactly as the physiotherapist has set them
Communication supports, including a board or device where a speech-language pathologist has recommended one
Learning pitched to the child's understanding, not to how their body moves
A school building and timetable the child can actually get through
Chapter 2
How a shadow teacher or special educator helps
A shadow teacher or special educator for a child with cerebral palsy helps the child take full part in learning while the body needs extra support. They follow the physiotherapist's and occupational therapist's guidance on seating, positioning and hand use, carry the speech-language pathologist's communication plan into every lesson, including a communication board or device where one is used, and make sure the child is taught at the level of their thinking. With the school, they plan routes, timings and practical changes to the classroom.
Chapter 3 · Where our role ends
Cerebral palsy is diagnosed by a paediatrician or paediatric neurologist, and physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists set the therapy programmes. Our professionals work to those programmes. Where a child needs medical or nursing care in the day, we say so, and we do not place an educator in that role.
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 cerebral palsy?+
A shadow teacher or special educator for a child with cerebral palsy helps the child take full part in learning while the body needs extra support. They follow the physiotherapist's and occupational therapist's guidance on seating, positioning and hand use, carry the speech-language pathologist's communication plan into every lesson, including a communication board or device where one is used, and make sure the child is taught at the level of their thinking. With the school, they plan routes, timings and practical changes to the classroom.
Is this therapy?+
No. Cerebral palsy is diagnosed by a paediatrician or paediatric neurologist, and physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech-language pathologists set the therapy programmes. Our professionals work to those programmes. Where a child needs medical or nursing care in the day, we say so, and we do not place an educator in that role.
Do you have Hindi-speaking professionals experienced with cerebral palsy?+
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
Cerebral palsy 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 cerebral palsy
Low vision and visual impairment in a mainstream school: what helps a child keep upSchool · 11 min read
Moving from primary to middle school: a transition plan for special needs in classes 5 and 6School · 10 min read
Annual day, sports day and school trips: planning for a child with special needsSchool · 13 min read
A one-page profile for teachers: what to include, with an exampleSchool · 11 min read
Homework adjustments for a child with special needs: what to ask the school forSchool · 11 min read
Classroom accommodations for special needs: what an Indian school can changeSchool · 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.