A learning disability assessment in Defence Colony answers a narrow, testable question: is a specific academic skill out of step with everything else this person can do? The short answer is our Malviya Nagar centre, because we do not have a centre in Defence Colony. It matters when you start, because exam boards set their own deadlines for accommodations and they fall well before the exam.
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Centre: eMbrace at Rainbow, Malviya Nagar
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Address: FC-29, Plot No. 5, Geetanjali, near Malviya Nagar Metro Station Gate No. 1, New Delhi 110017
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Nearest metro: Malviya Nagar, Yellow Line, beside Gate No. 1
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Phone: +91 99715 76800
Which eMbrace centre Defence Colony families use
Our closest centre to Defence Colony is in Malviya Nagar, at FC-29, Plot No. 5, Geetanjali, beside Malviya Nagar Metro Station Gate No. 1. We have no centre in Defence Colony, and it is a drive of some length, not a hop.
From Defence Colony, Jangpura and Lajpat Nagar the road route runs via Ring Road and Press Enclave Marg. On the metro it is a Violet Line to Yellow Line change at Central Secretariat or Hauz Khas depending on where you start, so most families in this catchment drive.
For families where the travel is the obstacle rather than the appointment, we run sessions online, and a good deal of child psychology work, particularly parent-facing sessions, does not lose anything in that format.
Two or three appointments, with the testing itself longer than for other assessments because reading, writing and mathematics each have to be measured properly. Timing is the thing to get right. If accommodations are the reason you are doing this, start at least a full academic year before the exam that matters, because board processes are slower than families expect and the deadline is rarely the one you assume.
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 assessment is worth doing
The pattern that warrants testing is unexpected underachievement: a child who understands the material in conversation, works as hard as their classmates or harder, and whose written output does not reflect either. What we are looking for is a specific gap, not general difficulty, and a large part of the work is ruling out the ordinary explanations first.
- Reading that is slow, effortful or inaccurate well past the age when it should have become automatic
- Spelling and written work far below the quality of the same child’s spoken answers
- Mathematics difficulty confined to number, where reasoning elsewhere is fine
- Vision, hearing, attendance, language of instruction and teaching quality all considered and excluded first
Dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, exam accommodations and academic intervention each have their own page on our learning disabilities hub.
What the testing actually measures
Two things, held against each other. First, general cognitive ability, so we know what this person is capable of. Second, the specific academic skills, reading accuracy and speed, comprehension, spelling, written expression and number, measured individually rather than inferred from school marks. In India that commonly draws on the NIMHANS battery for specific learning disability alongside the Wechsler scales.
School evidence goes in too: exercise books, report cards and the observations of whoever teaches the subject. A report written without them is weaker, and boards notice.
What brings families here
From Defence Colony and Jangpura assessments often follow a period of school-based remedial support that has plateaued, where everyone has been working hard and the underlying question was never actually tested.
Boarding school families are a distinct group here, where the school is elsewhere and the assessment has to be coordinated with a learning support team we will never meet in person.
Who you would see at our Malviya Nagar 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 Malviya Nagar centre, the clinicians who take this work are:
Taranpreet Kaur, Clinical Psychologist
M.Phil in Clinical Psychology with distinction, plus a Post Graduate Diploma in School Counselling from Symbiosis. ACT and MBCT for anxiety, depression, OCD and trauma, and comprehensive psychological assessment. Works in English, Hindi and Punjabi.
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
Around Defence Colony a good deal of this work reaches us through schools and universities rather than directly, and those routes are worth knowing.
Since 2024 we have run screening camps, teacher training and on-site counsellor support at Woodstock School in Mussoorie, with a referral pathway into full psychoeducational and cognitive assessment.
Since 2024 Lincoln School in Kathmandu has referred pupils to us for psychoeducational, cognitive, comprehensive and brief assessments, including risk assessments.
Fees, the report, and exam accommodations
Fees are quoted upfront on your intake call as one piece of work covering testing, report and feedback. The report names the instruments, gives the scores, and states what accommodations the findings support in specific terms, because a vague recommendation is of no use to a school or a board.
On accommodations, which is why most families are here: schools will generally act on a good report for internal exams. Board accommodations, whether extra time, a scribe, a calculator or a language exemption, run through the board’s own certification process, which frequently involves a designated government centre and has a deadline. We tell you what your board requires and by when, on the intake call, before you spend anything.
Frequently asked questions
That pattern usually means the underlying question was never tested. Assessment tells you what the support should have been targeting.
Yes, and it is common from this catchment. We coordinate with the school learning support team by email and schedule testing around the holidays.
At least a full academic year before the exam. Board processes are slower than families expect and the deadline is rarely the one you assume.
Our Malviya Nagar centre via Ring Road and Press Enclave Marg, for two or three appointments.
You are told the figure on the free 15-minute intake call, as one quote 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.
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