Anu Prabhakaran, the founder of Anvi Special Education is a RCI (Rehabilitation Council of India) certified special educator. She has also a postgraduate degree in Commerce and an MBA in finance. She has over seven years of hands-on experience teaching differently abled students in the most prestigious institutions in Chennai. As a special educator she is involved right from the stage of assessing candidates to identifying the difficulties faced by the children in various faculties. Based on the child’s needs an Individualized education plan (IEP) is charted for the child. The IEP is an important document which chronicles the child’s educational path. She has been instrumental in preparing effective IEPs for her students in association with therapists and parents. This is done to meet the requirements in all areas of the child’s development.

In her years of experience, she has intervened for children with intellectual disabilities, multiple disabilities with low vision and hearing impairment, Autism, ADHD, Learning disabilities and those with multiple disabilities. Her multisensory approach, creative and customized teaching strategies and empathy to her students’ needs has enabled her to bring substantial progress, evident from the child achieving his/her goals consistently. She has also helped several learning disabled students with remedial classes helping them cope with their regular academic syllabus and producing consistent results.