Developmental delay and complex needs support
Vetted shadow teachers, special educators and tutors for children with global developmental delay, intellectual disability and multiple or complex needs, 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 developmental delay and complex needs usually needs
Daily living skills taught patiently and repeatedly
A single, coordinated plan across several professionals and the whole household
Careful handling of transitions and new settings
Written records that a family can rely on
Chapter 2
How a shadow teacher or special educator helps
A special educator for a child with developmental delay or complex needs provides consistent daily support at home, works to the plans of every clinician involved, and acts as the family's coordinator so that nothing falls between the gaps.
Chapter 3 · Where our role ends
Children with complex medical needs may require a nurse or medical caregiver. We say so when that is the case, and we do not place an educator in a nursing role.
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 developmental delay and complex needs?+
A special educator for a child with developmental delay or complex needs provides consistent daily support at home, works to the plans of every clinician involved, and acts as the family's coordinator so that nothing falls between the gaps.
Is this therapy?+
No. Children with complex medical needs may require a nurse or medical caregiver. We say so when that is the case, and we do not place an educator in a nursing role.
Do you have Hindi-speaking professionals experienced with global developmental delay, intellectual disability and multiple or complex needs?+
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
Developmental delay and complex needs 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 developmental delay and complex needs
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
What age should ABA therapy start? Toddlers, school-age children and teenagersABA · 10 min read- ABA vs speech therapy vs occupational therapy: which does my child need first?ABA · 10 min read
- ABA beyond autism: ADHD, developmental delay, Down syndrome and behaviour that gets in the wayABA · 11 min read
- Discrete trial training (DTT): what happens at the table, and whyABA · 11 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.