PRAYATNA
ABOUT US
Prayatna was established in Bangalore in July 1998 to provide intervention services to children, who despite being intelligent and motivated, experience specific academic difficulties. Aruna Sankaranarayanan, the Founder/ Director of Prayatna, was motivated to start a centre for children with learning difficulties in India when she was an undergraduate student at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. While doing a summer internship, she found that most Indian schools did not provide any additional facilities for children with learning disabilities. She then equipped herself over a period of six years with the necessary knowledge and experience to start a centre in Bangalore. She completed her doctorate in developmental psychology
at Harvard University and was awarded a fellowship by the Echoing Green Foundation in New York to set up a centre in Bangalore.
A branch in Chennai was opened in April 2001. Prayatna has so far provided assessment & intervention services to over 300 children. Children who have difficulties in acquiring the basic academic skills of reading, spelling & elementary math are likely to benefit from Prayatnašs programs. At Prayatna, children play games and perform activities that enhance specific sub-skills that are required for mastering the 3 "R"s namely, reading, 'riting and 'rithmetic.
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