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Learning disabilities support in Kolkata.

Shadow teachers, special educators and remedial tutors for children with a learning disability in Kolkata, working to the plans your child's clinicians set.

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For Kolkata families

Families across Kolkata come to us when a child with a learning disability needs more support than the school day or a weekly therapy session can give on its own. A remedial tutor or special educator for a child with a learning disability delivers structured literacy and numeracy programmes at home or online, helps the family and school arrange the accommodations the child is entitled to, and reports monthly on progress against agreed targets.

We work with the city's long-established ICSE and ISC schools, its CBSE and West Bengal board schools, and a smaller number of IB and Cambridge programmes, and with the developmental paediatricians, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists and psychologists the family already trusts. Families in Salt Lake, New Town, Ballygunge and Alipore, and across West Bengal, start the same way: a private conversation, then a written child-support profile that every candidate is matched against.

What usually helps

Structured, multisensory literacy teaching
Numeracy taught step by step, with concrete materials
The accommodations the school and the board allow, arranged early
Confidence, which is usually the first casualty

We write these into your child's support profile before anyone is placed, so the professional arrives in Kolkata knowing the plan rather than guessing at it.

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How we help in Kolkata.

ABA therapy in Kolkata
Designed and supervised by a Board Certified Behavior Analyst, at home, at school or online, with parent coaching.
Shadow teachers in Kolkata
Inside the school day, with the school's agreement, so the strategies that work at home also work in class.
Special educators in Kolkata
Structured learning and routines at home, to a written plan reviewed every month.
Remedial tutors in Kolkata
Structured literacy and numeracy, step by step, at home or online.

Every one verified the same way, and every placement reviewed at one week, thirty days and ninety days.

How a placement works

Where our role ends

A learning disability is identified and certified by a qualified psychologist or hospital team, not by us. We help families find the right assessor where needed, and our tutors work to the resulting report.

Questions from Kolkata families

Can a shadow teacher support a child with a learning disability in a Kolkata school?+

Yes, where the school agrees. We speak to the inclusion coordinator, the principal's office or the class teacher before anyone is placed, and agree how the shadow teacher will work in class, so the support fits the school's own way of teaching.

Is this therapy?+

Our shadow teachers, special educators and tutors are educators, not therapists, and they work to the plans your child's clinicians and school set. The one therapy Special Minds provides is ABA, designed and supervised by a Board Certified Behavior Analyst; we do not diagnose, prescribe, or provide speech or occupational therapy.

Which parts of Kolkata do you cover?+

Salt Lake, New Town, Ballygunge, Alipore, Park Street, Behala, Tollygunge, Howrah, and the neighbourhoods around them. We shortlist by where your child goes to school and where you live, so the same professional can stay for the year.

Do we need a diagnosis before we contact you?+

No. Many Kolkata families come to us before there is a diagnosis, with a note from the school or a worry of their own. We tell you plainly whether we can help now, or whether a developmental paediatrician or psychologist should see your child first.

Will the professional speak our language?+

English always, and Hindi or Bengali where the candidate pool allows. Tell us on the brief which language your child is most at ease in.

How soon can support start in Kolkata?+

Once the child-support profile is written, a shortlist usually follows within two to four weeks, and a trial period comes before either side commits.