Special Education in Defence Colony

Special education in Defence Colony is teaching, not therapy, and it is not tuition either. Tuition re-teaches the same material the same way, more slowly. Special education changes how it is taught, so that a child who cannot learn it one way can learn it another. The short answer is our Malviya Nagar centre, because we do not have a centre in Defence Colony. Most of the work is done alongside a school rather than instead of one.

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.

Sessions run weekly or twice weekly, and unlike our therapy services a good deal of the value sits outside them, in what a school agrees to do differently. That means the liaison work matters as much as the teaching hours, and it is worth telling us on the intake call how willing your child’s school is to adapt, because it changes what we aim at.

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 special education is the right answer

It is the right answer when a child has the ability to learn the material and cannot access it the way it is being delivered. It is the wrong answer when the underlying issue has not been identified yet, which is why a good deal of this work follows an assessment rather than preceding one.

• Years of extra tuition that has not closed the gap
• An assessment identifying dyslexia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia or an intellectual disability, with nobody teaching to it
• A child falling further behind each year despite understanding the ideas when they are explained aloud
• A school willing to adapt but unsure what to actually change

How we work with schools directly is set out on our schools partnership hub.

How the work is planned

It starts with a written baseline of what a child can currently do, taken from testing and from their actual schoolwork rather than from marks. From that we write an individualised education plan: a small number of targets, the methods that will be used, and a date on which it is reviewed.

The teaching itself is structured and multisensory, particularly for literacy and number, which means material is presented through more than one channel and built in a deliberate sequence rather than assumed. Progress is measured against the plan, not against the class.

What the work looks like here

From Defence Colony and Jangpura a distinctive strand is boarding school students, where the teaching happens in the holidays and the term-time work is liaison with a learning support team we may never meet in person.

Day school referrals here typically follow an assessment and centre on structured literacy.

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.

Special education runs at our Malviya Nagar centre inside Rainbow. The special educator named on this site, Dhriti Dharana, is based at Vasant Kunj, so who you would work with at Malviya Nagar is confirmed on the intake call rather than assumed here. Ask when you call and we will tell you before you book.

Schools and services we already work with

This is the service where the schools we work with matter most, because most of the work happens in partnership with one. Around Defence Colony those include:

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, review, and working with the school

Fees are quoted upfront on your intake call and depend on frequency and on whether school liaison is part of the arrangement.

Plans are reviewed on a set date, usually each term, against the targets written at the start. Special education is slower than families hope: it is skill building, and skills accumulate rather than arrive. We would rather set that expectation at the beginning than have you judge the first term against a hope nobody stated out loud.

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