Swareena is one of the first children to join Learning Ladder at its establishment. Swareena’s parents have been very much supportive, humble and dependable for us. They have always praised all the programmes introduced to Swareena over the years. She has learnt almost everything with us.

Swareena was facing perception problems and was banging herself on the objects while walking. She was poor in coordination skills, academics, language and cognitive skills. We started intervention with her occupational therapy program, activities of daily living training, language development, socialization and functional reading of sight words.

Swareena started learning her concepts well and we keep on adding new domains to her curriculum. In 2017-18 we started working on these domains activities of daily living program, language development, functional academic, monetary awareness, cooking, computer literacy program and grade level program (for English only, NCERT). She has shown significant progress in all above-mentioned domains. In 2018-19 we modified her curriculum and started working on activities of daily living intermediate level , monetary and shopping (intermediate level), adult living skills (intermediate level), pantry care and cooking (intermediate level), vocational training – assistant teacher, and computer literacy program (intermediate level).

During this year, Swareena learned so many new skills in all the areas and she was capable enough to develop worksheets for academic grade pre-nursery upon the request of the teachers. She could manage photocopying, scanning, printing and handing over the required material to the respective teachers. She could manage basic cooking like preparing tea, coffee, soups, maggie, egg boiling, and omelettes 100% independently. She was responsible for taking care of medicines for her Dadi and now, she is taking care of medicines for her father.

We are preparing her for office assistant, household manager, assistant teacher and an independent girl.

Abhay came to Learning Ladder at 3 years of age. He was a child with delayed developmental milestones and emotional maladjustment. He was very insecure and used to cry every time parents left him. Parents were very concerned about the child and wanted some guidelines for him.

We conducted a week-long assessment in all the areas of early intervention domains and devised an intervention programme. The intervention programme included the areas of occupational therapy (motor, cognition, and perception), language (receptive and expressive), socialization (one to one and small group), concept learning and pre- academics curriculum.

He was not cooperative and used to mostly cry for two hours every day. We tried to give him confidence and made him feel secure at Learning Ladder. His mother had to sit beside him in all the sessions. We moved her away from the child gradually as he began to complete the tasks. Systematic planning and strategic implementation of individualized education programme was the key to success. Our hard work gradually showed positive results and we were able to remove his mother’s presence completely from Learning Ladder. One year down the line child was ready to go for pre-schooling in a normal school. He coped well in a normal school.

Ratik joined Learning Ladder since its establishment and has shown significant improvements in all the training areas which we introduced to him. He is a child with Autism and was having limitations in socialization, communication, academics, rigidity in food habits and was having some violent behavioral issues. We started his intervention in different domains of functional skills, behaviour modification, occupational therapy, language and speech therapy, sensory integration and socialization.

Ratik has learnt all the skills in his individualized educational program. He has significantly improved his reading, writing, arithmetic abilities, language and speech, socialization skills and adaptability to new environment. In 2017-18, he was learning socialization, language development program (intermediate level), functional academic program, shopping and money management, pantry care and cooking, vocational training program and grade level program (NCERT). Observing his progress In 2018-19, he was learning language development program, monitory awareness, shopping and money management, vocational training program, computer literacy program (basic level) , computer literacy program (intermediate level) and language proficiency development.

In 2019-20, he was learning language and speech development, domestic skills training program, socialization, adult living skills, pantry care and cooking, vocational training program, computer literacy program (intermediate level), computer literacy program (basic level) and language proficiency development. Today, at 24 years of age, Ratik is 100% independent in Activities of Daily Living Skills, Adult Living Skills, Functional academics, monetary management, shopping skills, Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft Office Excel, Power point Presentations, Mobile and Internet usage, cooking (intermediate) and all the aspect related to his day-to-day living.

Mankiran is the student of our first batch in Learning Ladder. She is an icon for our training modules, and result of hard work put in by different professionals of Learning Ladder team. When Mankiran (Nonie) came to us, she was facing so many problems such as language and speech, instructions following, drooling, functional reading, body posture and coordination related activities. She was having some behavioral issues and was not coping well with the teachers which was a big hurdle in her learning.

We started her intervention with behaviour modification, activities of daily living training skills, language development program, oral motor exercises, and occupational therapy exercises along with functional academics. We were able to stop her drooling within first year of our training; she significantly improved in her training areas which gave the confidence to the child and the professionals as well.

In 2017-18 we included functional academic program (intermediate level), monetary awareness, computer literacy program and language proficiency development program. She was able to read and comprehend smaller stories in Hindi and English and was also able to do comprehension exercises in writing. She learnt to use mobile and computer in order to communicate and use basic functions.

In 2018-19 we revised her curriculum and added activities in following areas: socialization, functional academic program, monetary awareness, shopping and money management program, pantry care and cooking, computer literacy program, grade level program (NCERT) in Hindi and language proficiency development program. She learnt various skills of office assistant and can photocopy, scan and print as per instructions given to her. She can also communicate the message to the concerned person upon request. We are preparing her to take all the responsibilities of Personal Assistant to director and be an office assistant.

Ninaad was only 3 years old when he was referred to Learning Ladder by a pediatrician of Max Hospital, Saket. He was on the Autism Spectrum Disorder spectrum and was having very poor eye contact, no speech, poor on attention span, poor socialization and very poor instruction following. We at Learning Ladder started intervention for Ninaad on occupational therapy, speech therapy, sensory integration, behaviour modification and socialization.

In due course of time, he learnt a few skills and got admission in Amity School. He was there for one year with a shadow teacher helping him with his classroom assignments. His parents decided to withdraw from the school and to make him more independent.

His parents came and discussed with us about the future course of intervention and started intervention with us for 3 to 4 hours every day. Ninaad started learning pre schooling programmes, i.e., pre-nursery, monetary awareness, functional academics, language development, socialization and group adjustment activities. He achieved as per our expectations and program was revised in 2018-19. We worked on language development, functional academic, shopping and money management, and computer literacy program along with his nursery curriculum and socialization skills. In year 2019-20, we posted him to kindergarten class and he started speaking in sentences. His progress in socialization skills, domestic skills and language development skills was remarkable. He also learnt many concepts, i.e., male/female, actions, prepositions, adding things to categories and generalization of previously learnt concepts. His parents are very happy with the progress of the child.

Karn A. is a child with cerebral palsy having significant limitations and mobility issues. He came to Learning Ladder 8 years back with the problems – poor academic progress, behavioral issues, poor learning and motivation. Poor motor coordination skills increased the challenges in learning and mobility. We encouraged him to walk on sticks and coordinate the sticks as per the space availability in the centre.

We started the intervention with the smaller skills like writing his name, and keep building it to a level of small stories, reading, comprehension and writing answers in words or phrases. We also taught him money concept, sight word reading of different shopping materials, price tag reading and checking for expiry dates. He also learned typing on MS office word, making bills on MS excel and calculation of the amount even after discounts.

After discussion with his parents, we trained him for a smaller outlet of snacks and beverages. We trained him in a simulated environment for money transactions and balance money concepts. We also trained him to prepare the bills and collecting the desired amount and delivering the things to the concerned person. we are happy to share that Karn has opened a smaller outlet of snacks and beverage and managing most of the things independently.

Raghav was 8 years old and studying in class 3 when he came to Learning Ladder with major problem in Hindi and English comprehension and writing as well. We conducted an assessment of grade-2 where he merely achieved passing scores in both the subjects and committed spelling errors and grammatical errors. He was very low in confidence and Hindi was the most challenging subject for him.

Our assessment revealed that he is not aware of matraas, confusion in alphabet sounds and was unable to read or write paragraphs chapter of his books. We started intervention with systematic eradications of deficiencies and boosting his confidence through verbal comprehension and evaluating his content without evaluating spelling/matraas errors.

Our intervention helped the child to perform better in the class and got appreciation from teachers. He managed to score 10/10 in his Hindi unit test and 8/10 in English unit test. His parents were happy with the progress of child and thank Learning Ladder team for helping him to accommodate him in the class.

Sarthak is a child with intellectual impairment and came to Learning Ladder in 2013 with many challenges faced by his parents. He was low on confidence, very dependent on the prompts of his mother, talked in few words and was totally dependent on supervision in order to complete a task. He had attended a regular school till class 8th but was unable to do any curricular or extracurricular work independently. He had undergone major surgery for the treatment of epilepsy.

We started working with him on his confidence building, functional academics, language skills, money concepts and other related areas. In due course of time, Sarthak has shown significant improvement in all areas. His confidence was boosted and he started working independently. He was very much focused on his functional academics and money concepts. His language and communication skills were significantly improved. As he turned 18, we discussed about his vocational training with the parents. His parents own a small shop in front of BSES office. We suggested that we can train him for photocopy, scanning and printing work. His parents agreed and we started the training in all direct job related and associated areas.

Our hard work, parent’s contribution and child’s dedication paid off. We placed him in his shop and he is now performing all the activities independently. He did face a few challenges initially, but we were able to address them during his sessions by creating a simulated environment. Now, he is independent in all his job-related skills and going to his shop regularly.