Learning Disability Assessment in Green Park

A learning disability assessment in Green Park 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 Green Park. It matters when you start, because exam boards set their own deadlines for accommodations and they fall well before the exam.

Which eMbrace centre Green Park families use

Our nearest centre to Green Park is in Malviya Nagar, two Yellow Line stops south, at FC-29, Plot No. 5, Geetanjali, beside Malviya Nagar Metro Station Gate No. 1. We do not have a centre in Green Park.

From Green Park, Yusuf Sarai, Sarvapriya Vihar and Hauz Khas Enclave the run down Aurobindo Marg is direct, and the metro covers it in two stops on one line with no change.

Because the centre is inside Rainbow Children's Hospital, a child who needs speech and language therapy or occupational therapy after assessment continues in the same building with clinicians who already have the report.

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 Green Park the referrals are younger, often eight to eleven, usually flagged by a class teacher who has noticed that reading has stayed effortful long after it should have become automatic.

At this age the most useful part of the assessment is often what it rules out. Vision, hearing, attendance and the language of instruction account for a fair share of apparent reading difficulty, and checking them is not a formality.

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 Green Park a good deal of this work reaches us through schools and universities rather than directly, and those routes are worth knowing.

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.

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.

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