Pradip's Mission
Pradip's mission is to promote life long access and opportunities for persons within the Autism spectrum and their families, to be fully included, participating members of their communities through awareness, education and research related to Autism. Through the dedicated and untiring efforts of our teachers, qualified therapists and the professionals in this field and also the co-operation of benevolent guardians we are trying to move ahead in this challenging job in a more scientific manner.
How it all started
The need to establish our centre was felt when it was found that parents of autistic children had been taking their wards to different Special Schools where students of different types of mental disabilities were being attended simultaneously. Since the problem of Autism is altogether different from any other kind of mental disablement, a special center, where only the autistic children would be given care, was very much needed. The centre started its activities in the month of July 1999, with organizing seminars, symposia and workshops on different aspects of Autism. Those were addressed and attended by eminent psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and parents of affected children. There were some home-based programs as well. In the month of April, 2000 we started imparting training and therapy in a regular and structured system.
