Autism Therapy in South Delhi

Autism therapy in South Delhi is not one thing. It is a programme assembled from several disciplines around what a particular child actually needs, which is why the first honest question is not how many hours but which hours. The short answer is either of our two south Delhi centres, Malviya Nagar or Vasant Kunj, and which one is a question of your journey rather than of the service. This page sets out what the programme can contain, what it is aiming at, and what it is not promising.

Which eMbrace centre South Delhi families use

Both our Delhi centres are in south Delhi, which makes this the one part of the city where you have a real choice rather than a nearest option.

eMbrace at Rainbow, Malviya Nagar, at FC-29, Plot No. 5, Geetanjali, sits beside Malviya Nagar Metro Station Gate No. 1 on the Yellow Line. It is the closer centre from Saket, Hauz Khas, Green Park, Greater Kailash and Defence Colony, and because it runs inside Rainbow Children's Hospital, therapy across occupational therapy, speech therapy and physiotherapy is in the same building.

eMbrace Vasant Kunj, at C-7, Sector C, Pocket 5, Grand Vasant Kunj, is the closer centre from Vasant Vihar, Munirka, R.K. Puram and Safdarjung Enclave, and carries the larger clinical team.

If you are unsure which to pick, the free intake call sorts it out in a couple of minutes, and we would rather do that than have you drive to the wrong side of Aurobindo Marg.

This is the heaviest commitment we offer: potentially two or three appointments a week across different disciplines, sustained over months, so the journey is not a detail. Be blunt on the intake call about what your week can carry. A smaller programme that runs for a year beats an ambitious one abandoned in six.

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.

What the therapy is aiming at

The goal is a child who can communicate what they need, take part in what matters to them, and spend less of the day distressed. It is not making an autistic child indistinguishable from a non-autistic one. That distinction changes which goals go in the plan, so it is worth asking any provider where they stand before you commit.

• Communication, whether spoken, signed or through a device, so a child can get needs and ideas across
• Regulation and sensory strategies, so the day contains fewer overwhelming moments
• Participation at home and at school, measured in what a child can join in with
• Parent and sibling support, because the programme runs at home far more hours than it runs with us

Behaviour therapy, sleep, feeding, emotional regulation and autism with ADHD each have their own page on our autism hub.

What a programme is made of

A programme draws on behaviour therapy and parent training, speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, special education for school access, and physiotherapy where movement is affected. For the youngest children it is organised around naturalistic early intervention, embedded in play and daily routines rather than delivered at a table.

What we will not do is put every child on the same package. The plan starts from a written baseline, names a few goals in terms you could check yourself, and is reviewed on a set date. If a goal is not moving, the plan changes.

What programmes tend to look like here

Across south Delhi the dominant programme shape is school-facing: a child in a mainstream school, and a plan aimed at letting them access the day. The single most useful output is often a short, practical note the class teacher can act on.

The second pattern is consolidation, where a family has accumulated several providers over years and nobody has ever written one plan.

Who you would see

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.

Across our Delhi centres, the clinicians who take this work are:

Dhriti Dharana, Clinical Lead

MSc in Clinical Health Psychology and Well-being from Middlesex University, UK. Behavioural therapy with neurodivergent children and parent training, from a neurodiversity-affirming position. Works in fluent English and native Hindi.

Cheesha Kanwar, Psychologist

Completing an MSc in Clinical Psychology at Christ (Deemed to be University), with a BA (Hons) in Applied Psychology from the University of Delhi. Behaviour therapy and assessment support using WISC-V, NEPSY-II, Conners-3 and BRIEF-2. 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.

Upasna, Speech Language Pathologist

Upasna holds a Master and a Bachelor in Speech Language Pathology from the Ali Yavar Jung National Institute for Speech and Hearing Disability in Kolkata. Her paediatric work covers spoken language disorders, misarticulation, late language emergence, developmental verbal dyspraxia, developmental stuttering and cluttering, cleft lip and palate, cochlear implant support, cerebral palsy and pragmatic language difficulty in autism.

Abha Mattoo, Paediatric Physiotherapist

Abha Mattoo holds an MPT in Neurological Sciences with a paediatrics elective from Sikkim Manipal University and a BPT from H.N.B. Garhwal University. She works in paediatric neurological and cardiothoracic rehabilitation, and previously ran early intervention rehabilitation for children with autism and ADHD at the Sangamitra Centre in Bengaluru.

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

Autism support around South Delhi does not stop at our door, and the organisations we work with shape what we can offer.

Our Malviya Nagar centre runs inside Rainbow Children's Hospital, New Delhi, which is why occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech therapy, behaviour therapy and special education sit in the same building as assessment.

At the American Embassy School in Chanakyapuri we carry out psychoeducational, cognitive, comprehensive and brief assessments, including risk assessments, and provide therapy for children and adolescents.

Since 2025 we have delivered corporate workshops with Atypical Advantage on inclusivity and neurodiversity, autism awareness and mental health awareness.

Fees, hours, and how progress is judged

Fees are quoted upfront on your intake call and depend on which disciplines the programme uses and how often. Because it is assembled rather than sold as a package, you get the shape and the cost together before anything starts.

We review formally on a date set in advance, against the goals written at the start. Beware anyone promising a timeline or an outcome for autism therapy, because nobody can honestly give you one.

Frequently asked questions