Centre for Assessment and Therapy (OPD Unit)
The objective of the ‘Centre for Assessment and Therapy’ (popularly known as OPD unit) is to address the problems of the children through appropriate intervention programs. This is the entry point for the children with special needs. The focus is to assess the child and diagnose the disability and also its severity.
Assessment includes consultation and diagnosis of the problem. Based on the assessment the intervention program is planned in the areas of psychological, educational and therapeutic.
It also conducts some tests which include diagnostic tests for Autism Spectrum Disorder, Attention deficit hyperactive disorder; Educational tests comprising Intelligence Quotient, Specific Learning Disability, Personality tests consisting of Thematic Apperception Test, Children’s Apperception Test, Rorschach Ink Blot Test and many more psychological tests.

Sukanya Mitra,
Head, Centre for Assessment & Therapy
Phone: 09432550909 / 033 46031861
Email: mvkassessment@gmail.com
Services Offered
Along with the above mentioned assessments we also offer these services:
- Child and Parental Counselling
- Multisensory Stimulations
- Sensory Integration
- Hydrotherapy
- Self help skills
- Play Therapy
- Music and Dance Movement Therapy
- Art and Craft
- Games and Outdoor activities
- Audiovisual Sessions
Regular classes run in the OPD are :
- EI (Early Intervention) Play group
- EI Junior
- EI Downs group
- EI ASD group
- Pre- Academic class
- Transit (School readiness Program)
- EI–Afternoon classes.
Package Programme
For the children, who cannot attend the regular classes due to various reasons, we offer our ‘package programmes’. In package programmes Therapies are provided for 3-5 consecutive days under our supervision and then home based strategies are discussed with the parents to continue with the therapies. Many parents look for such programmes, specially out stationed parents to get a proper guideline for their children. In the year 2018-19, we could reach out to 38 children who were benefited by our package programmes.

During the year 2018-2019 the assessment wing assessed and diagnosed the following categories of disabilities and impairments.
Graphical representation of the number of cases in the year 2018-2019
Autism Spectrum Disorder | 248 |
Intellectual Disability | 65 |
Borderline intellectual functioning | 14 |
Cerebral Palsy | 13 |
Intellectual disability with epilepsy | 07 |
Intellectual Disability with autistic traits | 07 |
Global Developmental Delay | 20 |
Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder | 50 |
Hearing Deficit | 08 |
Down’s Syndrome | 22 |
Seizure Disorder | 08 |
Conduct Disorder | 06 |
Expressive Speech Disorder | 12 |
Seizure disorder with autistic traits | 05 |
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder | 03 |
Learning Disorder | 02 |
Others | 11 |
TOTAL | 501 |

OTHER PURSUITS OF THE DEPARTMENT
This year we organized a workshop for parents on AUTISM AND MANAGEMENT OF AUTISITC CHILDREN. One of our esteemed resource person was Ms. Indrani Basu who has wide exposure in this field and deals with the management of autistic children.
ASSESSMENT DETAILS (2018-2019)
Intelligence Quotient | 210 |
Dyslexia Screening Tests | 05 |
Childhood Autism Rating Scale | 05 |
Connor’s Parent Rating Scale | 56 |
Indian Scale for Assessment of Autism | 150 |
Total | 426 |