What a special-education session looks like
The hour is one learning skill, taught the way this child actually learns — not a second classroom of worksheets they already failed. They should leave feeling more capable, not smaller.
Written by the Inclusive Developmental and Therapy Center therapy team — our Speech & Language Therapist, psychology and ABA staff. This page is awaiting its clinical review.
Who teaches
Mahnoor Baloch is a special educator as well as a speech and language therapist; she writes the learning plan after the first assessment. School-readiness hours often sit with Akasha Tariq. How Mahnoor teaches: special education with Mahnoor. Pillar: special education.
The shape of the hour
We look at last week’s goal. We teach one step with real objects, pictures, movement — not a page of sums they cannot read. We stop while they can still succeed. You leave with one home job and a line the teacher can try. Related: IEPs, letter to school.
What this is not
It is not a special school. Your child stays in their own school or nursery. It is not tuition that piles more of the same work on a tired evening. If the wall is language, we say so and speech leads. If the wall is sitting, school-readiness leads.
The lesson opens on something they can already do
Then one new sound, pattern or number bond. You leave with ten minutes for home, with the materials. Pillar: special education. Contact the owner first.
The idea behind the work (in the books)
One target skill, multi-sensory, success likely. Half-learnt material is what collapses two years later.
Engelmann — Direct Instruction
Model, respond, correct in the same minute. We take the thoroughness. We are not a branded DI school.
Vygotsky — ZPD
Early lessons are pitched where success is close to certain. A worksheet they already fail in a class of thirty is not a ZPD.
What the research tells us
This isn’t just our opinion — it’s grounded in published research. Here are a few findings from trusted, independent sources:
A meta-analysis of 53 studies covering 6,053 children found that structured reading intervention produces a real gain for children with or at risk of dyslexia. Dosage was the one thing that reliably made interventions stronger. Word reading and spelling moved more than comprehension.
— Hall et al., Reading Research Quarterly (2023). View source
Take a worksheet home
Print one sheet. Fill it in this week. Bring it to the consultation — a consultation is Rs 1,500 and lasts up to 50 minutes.
Alphabet cards
Letter and sound together. Not a trophy recitation.
Letter tracing
See it, say it, trace it.
Home practice log
One skill, a few minutes, one line of what happened. Bring it next time.
Early-reading program (PDF)
Sounds in play, not ABC as a trophy.
Book a consultation
Contact owner Muhammad Salman Afzal first. No referral needed. A consultation is Rs 1,500 and lasts up to 50 minutes.
A session — questions parents ask
Is this a school?
No. We are a therapy centre. Sessions are one-to-one. Your child carries on at their own school.
Will you do their homework?
No. We find the skill blocking the homework and practise that. See homework battles.
Do you write IEPs?
We write a short plan a Pakistani teacher can try for ten school days. That is not a US legal IEP, and we do not pretend it is.
How do we start?
A consultation is Rs 1,500 and lasts up to 50 minutes. Bring a school book and one page that went badly.
Will they do school homework here?
No. We teach the stalled skill. Fighting last night’s worksheet until ten is not the hour.
Ask about a session
A short, friendly conversation is the best first step. Call, text or WhatsApp us — we’ll listen and guide you, with no pressure.
MPS Road, Block A Model Town, Multan (near Bloomfield Hall School, Street No. 2) · Mon–Fri, 2 PM – 6 PM