Down Syndrome Treatment in Delhi

Down syndrome support in Delhi is a long relationship rather than a course of treatment, and the honest framing matters: nothing here treats Down syndrome. What therapy does is build skills, and children with Down syndrome build a great many of them. The short answer is both our Delhi centres, Vasant Kunj and Malviya Nagar, and which one is a question of your journey rather than of the service.

Which of our Delhi centres you would use

We have two centres in Delhi, and which one you use is a question of geography rather than service, because the same pathway runs at both.

eMbrace Vasant Kunj, at C-7, Sector C, Pocket 5, Grand Vasant Kunj, is the larger team and serves south-west Delhi: Vasant Vihar, Munirka, R.K. Puram, Safdarjung Enclave, Anand Niketan, Shanti Niketan, Moti Bagh and Chanakyapuri.

eMbrace at Rainbow, Malviya Nagar, at FC-29, Plot No. 5, Geetanjali, beside Malviya Nagar Metro Station Gate No. 1, serves the Yellow Line corridor through Saket, Hauz Khas and Green Park, and the drive-in catchment of Greater Kailash and Defence Colony. It runs inside Rainbow Children's Hospital, so multidisciplinary therapy sits in the same building as assessment.

If you are in north or west Delhi, either centre is a real journey, and we would usually suggest starting online and coming in only for the parts that have to happen in a room.

The pattern over years is intensive early, lighter later, with periodic returns at transition points: starting school, changing school, adolescence, and the move towards adult independence. Families often stop and restart with us, which is normal and expected rather than a failure of anything.

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 support usually covers

Priorities shift with age. In the early years the work is motor development, feeding and first communication. In the school years it becomes literacy, numeracy and classroom access. In adolescence it turns towards independence, self-care and what comes after school.

• Physiotherapy for low muscle tone, motor milestones and posture
• Speech and language therapy, often including signing alongside speech in the early years
• Occupational therapy for fine motor, feeding and daily living skills
• Special education, including reading, which children with Down syndrome frequently learn well

The detail sits on our Down syndrome support page.

How we start

With an assessment across all areas and a conversation about what you actually want next, which is a different question from what a textbook would prioritise. Goals are written as things your child will do rather than as scores, and reviewed as they grow.

We will not offer a prognosis. The range of outcomes is wide, and confident predictions in either direction have done a great deal of harm to families.

What we work on most

At Malviya Nagar, inside Rainbow, physiotherapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy and special education sit alongside paediatric care, which matters here because children with Down syndrome commonly need several of those at once and have medical follow-up running in parallel.

The commonest early referrals are for feeding and motor development in the first year.

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:

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

Support around Delhi extends well past therapy hours, and these are the organisations involved.

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.

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

Fees and the long view

Fees are quoted upfront on your intake call and depend on which disciplines are involved and how often.

Over years the cost is not steady. Early intervention is the most intensive period; later years are frequently a review a term plus school liaison. We would rather set that expectation now than have you plan for a decade of weekly appointments that will not be needed.

Frequently asked questions