Most families who come to us in Delhi are not new to this. They have been somewhere. Often several somewheres. Speech twice a week, occupational therapy on Saturdays, a behaviour programme that ran for six months. They arrive with a folder, and the folder is thick.
And when I ask the one question that matters — what has changed? — the answer is usually a pause.
That pause is the problem, and it is not the parent’s fault.
Hours are not the treatment
There is a belief, very widespread, that the amount of therapy is the thing that works. More hours, faster progress. So a family doubles the sessions, adds a second centre, drives across Delhi twice a week, and waits.
But a session is only a container. What goes inside it is the treatment. Two children with the same diagnosis, the same age and the same number of hours can need almost opposite things — and if nobody has worked out which, the hours are being spent on an average child who does not exist.
The three things that should exist before a single session
If you cannot find these in your folder, you have found your answer.
A diagnosis, not a label. “Autism” is not a treatment plan. It tells you very little about what to do on Tuesday morning. What matters is the specific profile underneath — what your child understands, what they can do but will not, where the processing actually breaks down. Two children both described as autistic can need entirely different work.
Goals you agreed, in your words. Not “improve communication”. Something you could film: will bring me the cup when he wants water, will stay at the table for the length of one song, will tolerate his brother sitting next to him. If you did not agree the goal, nobody can tell you whether it was met.
A date when it gets reviewed. Decided at the start, not when you complain. A programme with no review date never fails — it just continues.
Why “he is not cooperating” is a clinical finding, not a verdict
When a child will not do what a session asks, that is almost always read as the child’s failure. It is usually information. A child who is distressed cannot think — and a child who cannot think cannot learn the thing the session was designed to teach. The session is not too hard for the child. It is aimed at the wrong level, or it is being run through a nervous system that is already overloaded.
Work out which, and the same child becomes able. That is not motivation. It is matching.
What we do differently
We do not sell sessions. We work out what is going on first, agree with you what we are trying to change, teach you how to do it in the hours we are not there, and come back to the measurement on a date we set at the start. Dr Rahul Bharat leads the clinical work at every Geniuslane centre, Janakpuri included — this is one practice, not a franchise.
If you have been going somewhere for a year and cannot say what changed, bring the folder. The folder usually tells us a great deal.
In Delhi: our centre is in Janakpuri West, opposite District Centre, and families travel to us from across west and south-west Delhi, Dwarka, Rohini and Gurugram. Book an appointment