An autism assessment in Gurgaon is a structured diagnostic process built around watching your child directly, not around filling in forms about them. The centre is in Gurgaon itself. This page covers what the assessment involves, how young we can start, and what a diagnosis does and does not give you on paper.
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Centre: eMbrace Gurugram
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Address: 710, DLF City Court, Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road, Nathupur, Sector 24, Gurugram, Haryana 122002
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Nearest metro: Guru Dronacharya, Yellow Line, roughly 700 metres away
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Phone: +91 99109 77626
Our Gurugram centre
eMbrace Gurugram is at 710, DLF City Court, Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road, Nathupur, Sector 24, Gurugram 122002. Guru Dronacharya on the Yellow Line is roughly 700 metres away, which makes this one of the few specialist child psychology services in Gurugram you can reach without a car.
That matters for families coming from DLF Phases 1 to 4, Sushant Lok, Sector 54 and the sectors around it, and it matters again for teenagers who would rather come to a session independently than be dropped off by a parent.
Delhi families sometimes choose Gurugram over our Delhi centres simply because the Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road run is easier from where they live than crossing south Delhi. Either centre is fine, and the same pathway runs at both.
This is a defined piece of work rather than a weekly commitment: normally two or three appointments plus report writing. It also starts younger than most services here, from around eighteen months, and with very young children we would rather see you sooner and say the picture is not yet clear than have you wait a year for certainty. Where a child has lost skills they previously had, at any age, say so when you call and we will bring the appointment forward.
For parking, the nearest drop-off point and the quickest route at your particular time of day, ask on the intake call. Traffic and parking around every one of these centres change enough through the day that current directions from someone who works there beat anything we could fix on a web page.
When an autism assessment is worth doing
The question is rarely whether a child is unusual. It is whether the pattern of social communication, interaction and behaviour is consistent enough to be recognisable, and whether naming it would change what your child is offered. Early identification matters more here than in any other assessment we do, because what follows it is time-sensitive.
- Limited eye contact, response to name or shared attention in the second year
- Speech that is late, absent, or present but not used to connect with other people
- Strong preference for routine, with distress out of proportion when it changes
- Loss of words, gestures or social skills a child previously had, at any age
Diagnostic evaluation, ADOS-2, sleep, feeding and emotional regulation each have their own page on our autism hub.
What the assessment actually involves
The core of it is direct observation. ADOS-2 is a semi-structured session in which a clinician sets up ordinary social situations, play, conversation, small frustrations, and records how your child responds. To a watching parent it looks like someone playing with your child, and it is the closest thing there is to a standardised way of seeing social communication rather than asking about it.
Around that sits a developmental history from you, structured tools such as ISAA and CARS, and input on communication and on sensory and motor profiles from our speech and language and occupational therapy colleagues. That part is not decoration. It separates a diagnosis from a description, and it is why this team is larger than for other assessments.
What brings families to autism assessment here
The Gurugram autism caseload skews early. Most referrals are children under five, usually reaching us through a paediatrician or a preschool that has raised concerns about speech and social interaction, and the urgency is real because what follows assessment is time-sensitive at that age.
The second group is school-age children whose academic performance is fine and whose social and sensory difficulties have become the limiting factor. Because our occupational therapy colleague sits at this centre, the sensory side of that picture can be assessed here rather than referred onward.
Who you would see at our Gurugram centre
Dr Supriya Malik, Founder and CEO, and Head of the Child Development Centre at Rainbow
PhD in Developmental Psychology from the University of Birmingham, where she was also a postdoctoral researcher, and a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society in the UK. She designed the assessment and therapy pathways every eMbrace centre runs.
At our Gurugram centre, the clinicians who take this work are:
Mannat Kaur Arora, Psychologist
Professional Diploma in Clinical Psychology from Amity University Haryana and an MA in Psychology from the University of Delhi. Assessment across MISIC, WISC-IV, Conners 3, CBCL, ISAA, CARS and the NIMHANS SLD battery. Works in English and Hindi.
Dr Agrima Aggarwal, Occupational Therapist
Dr Agrima Aggarwal is a PhD scholar in Occupational Therapy at Mahatma Gandhi University of Medical Sciences and Technology. She holds an MOT in Neurology from SVNIRTAR, Utkal University, where she was gold medallist, and a BOT from PDUNIPPD, University of Delhi. She works in paediatric occupational therapy and early intervention, alongside neurorehabilitation and cognitive rehabilitation.
Which of them you see is decided on the intake call rather than by whoever has the next free slot, and you are told who it will be before you book. Fuller biographies are on our about page.
Schools and services we already work with
Families around Gurgaon reach our autism assessment service through several routes, and the institutional ones are worth knowing about.
We work with Pathways School Gurgaon on psychoeducational, cognitive and risk assessments, therapy for children and adolescents, and workshops for teachers, parents and pupils.
Through The Medical Travel Company we provide autism and ADHD assessment and therapy for families in the UK, across Africa and elsewhere in India, on hybrid, in-person and online programmes.
Since 2025 Ashoka University in Sonepat has referred students to us for psychoeducational and cognitive assessment, and for neurodiversity assessment covering autism and ADHD.
Fees, the report, and the certification question
Fees are quoted upfront on your intake call, as one piece of work covering observation, history, report and feedback. The report names the instruments used, states the conclusion plainly, and sets out what your child needs next in specific terms.
On paperwork, where families are most often confused: what we give you is a clinical diagnosis, and schools and therapy services act on it. A disability certificate under the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act is a different document, issued by a government medical board through its own process. We explain that route on the intake call rather than leaving you to discover afterwards that you needed something else.
Frequently asked questions
No. Most of our Gurugram referrals are under five precisely because what follows an assessment at that age is time-sensitive.
Yes. Our occupational therapist works from this centre, so the sensory and motor side is assessed here rather than referred onward.
710, DLF City Court, Mehrauli-Gurgaon Road, Sector 24, with Guru Dronacharya on the Yellow Line roughly 700 metres away.
Not directly. Ours is a clinical diagnosis. The RPwD certificate is issued by a government medical board through its own separate process.
Quoted on the free 15-minute intake call before booking, as a single figure for the whole assessment.
Book, or check first
Start with the free 15-minute intake call. It is with a clinician, fees are quoted on it, and if we are not the right service for your child we will tell you on that call rather than after you have paid for an appointment.
Book a free intake call