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 & its severity.
Assessment includes consultation and diagnosis of the problem reported along with psychiatric, psychological, special educational, speech and language therapy, sensory integration and occupational guidance.
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,
Co-ordinator, Early Intervention & Intervention Services - C.A.T.
Phone: 033-46031861
Email: mvkassessment@gmail.com
Services Offered
Along with the above mentioned assessments we also offer these services:
- Child and Parental Counselling
- Detailed psychometric evaluation
- Multi-sensory
- Sensory Integration
- Hydrotherapy
- Self help skills
- Play Therapy
- Dance and music /Movement Therapy
- Art and Craft
- Games and Outdoor activities
- Audiovisual
- Hand Therapy
- Drama Therapy
- Genetic Counselling for Parents
- Parental Workshops
Regular classes run in the OPD are :
- EI -(Early Intervention) Play group
- EI -Junior
- EI -Downs group
- EI -ASD group
- Pre‐ Academic class
- Transit
- EI –Afternoon classes
- Third shift group classes‐ afternoon
Introduced In 2020-21
To further uplift our services we have added few more therapies in the year 2020-21:
The entire academic session of 2020-2021 was conducted virtually due to the Coronavirus pandemic. All classes (academic, co curricular and therapy) and assessments have been conducted through virtual platforms.
- Weekly parent counselling for the early intervention groups.
- Non thermal cooking with parental help is taught to make children self sufficient.
- Along with the essential therapies we have also introduced art and design classes for EI group classes.
- The overall assessment by a multi disciplinary team is also being provided virtually.
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, especially out stationed parents to get a proper guideline for the treatment of their children .In the year 2019‐ 20, we could reach to 45 children who were benefited by our package programmes.

During the year 2019-2020 the assessment wing assessed and diagnosed the following categories of disabilities and impairments.
Graphical representation of the number of cases in the year 2019-2020
Autism Spectrum Disorder | 195 |
Intellectual Disability | 66 |
Borderline intellectual functioning | 20 |
Cerebral Palsy | 10 |
Intellectual disability with epilepsy | 08 |
Intellectual Disability with autistic traits | 05 |
Global Developmental Delay | 30 |
Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder | 29 |
Hearing Deficit | 15 |
Down’s Syndrome | 21 |
Seizure Disorder | 04 |
Conduct Disorder | 08 |
Expressive Speech Disorder | 15 |
Seizure disorder with autistic traits | 08 |
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder | 09 |
Learning Disorder | 04 |
Others | 22 |
TOTAL | 480 |

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 (2019-2020)
Intelligence Quotient | 175 |
Dyslexia Screening Tests | 04 |
Childhood Autism Rating Scale | 25 |
Connor’s Parent Rating Scale | 29 |
Indian Scale for Assessment of Autism | 160 |
Total | 393 |