Down syndrome support
Vetted shadow teachers, special educators and tutors for children with Down syndrome, 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 down syndrome usually needs
Learning broken into small, concrete steps with plenty of repetition
Visual supports for language and reading
Speech and motor targets carried into the everyday
A school placement that includes the child rather than seats them
Chapter 2
How a shadow teacher or special educator helps
A shadow teacher or special educator for a child with Down syndrome supports the child inside a mainstream classroom, reinforces the speech-language and occupational-therapy targets, and works with the school to keep the child part of the class rather than beside it.
Chapter 3 · Where our role ends
Medical care, therapy and assessment sit with the child's paediatrician and therapists. Our professionals are educators, and they work to the clinicians' plans.
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 down syndrome?+
A shadow teacher or special educator for a child with Down syndrome supports the child inside a mainstream classroom, reinforces the speech-language and occupational-therapy targets, and works with the school to keep the child part of the class rather than beside it.
Is this therapy?+
No. Medical care, therapy and assessment sit with the child's paediatrician and therapists. Our professionals are educators, and they work to the clinicians' plans.
Do you have Hindi-speaking professionals experienced with Down syndrome?+
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
Down syndrome 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 down syndrome
ABA beyond autism: ADHD, developmental delay, Down syndrome and behaviour that gets in the wayABA · 11 min read
Task analysis and chaining: teaching brushing, dressing and packing the school bag step by stepABA · 10 min read
Financial planning for a special needs child in India: wills, trusts and guardiansRights · 10 min read
Down syndrome baby development: learning at home from birth to fiveEarly years · 11 min read
Life skills for special needs children: a plan by age, from dressing to moneyGrowing up · 11 min read
Body safety for special needs children: beyond good touch and bad touchSafeguarding · 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.