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Two years ago, a Grade 1 boy at a low-income Mumbai school couldn't stay in a classroom for more than five minutes. He'd bolt and break into hysterics and panic. Teachers didn't know what to do. His single mother had been told that maybe a mainstream school wasn't for him.
Today, he loves reading grade-level books, with his finger tracking each word and Kardi (a Grade 1 English Text) stories played on the white board. He loves math and telling you the names of all planets in the solar system. He shares his apple with his friend and reluctantly does some writing work.
He’s one of our stars, Chirayu. And his story is what Brain Bristle exists to make possible.
There are millions of students like Chirayu in India who may never see the future he’ll see.
So, we started Brain Bristle with a stubborn conviction: that effective, daily, trained intervention can unlock progress for children with autism in mainstream education, even in the most under-resourced classrooms of India.
And, once you’ve evidenced some such stories, sharing those becomes easy.
Here is what Year 3 looks like:
1. Expanding our Social Work Fellowship to 16 low income schools: Focused teaching interventions toward education and inclusion via our Social Work Fellows to reach more students like Chirayu and share prototypes globally of what is possible for students like Chirayu.
2. Curricular scaffolding: Last year, a core committee off 4 members (Alisha Ganguly, Sheery Singh, Sanchita Sahay and Devangana Mishra) worked on a NCERT-aligned teaching tool to provide scaffolded support for every day classroom teaching to our SW Fellows
3. Globalising our training: The same committee will grow this training model to take it to our partner schools and regions and educators globally.
4. Building a small research team : Generating the evidence base of nuanced teaching and intervention practices for autism, inclusion, equitable education.
5. Awareness at scale: With research and our on ground model supporting us, grow evidence backed press, films, media, and outreach that shift the national conversation about autism and inclusion.
1. Expanding our Social Work Fellowship to 16 low income schools: Focused teaching interventions toward education and inclusion via our Social Work Fellows to reach more students like Chirayu and share prototypes globally of what is possible for students like Chirayu.
2. Curricular scaffolding: Last year, a core committee off 4 members (Alisha Ganguly, Sheery Singh, Sanchita Sahay and Devangana Mishra) worked on a NCERT-aligned teaching tool to provide scaffolded support for every day classroom teaching to our SW Fellows
3. Globalising our training: The same committee will grow this training model to take it to our partner schools and regions and educators globally.
4. Building a small research team : Generating the evidence base of nuanced teaching and intervention practices for autism, inclusion, equitable education.
5. Awareness at scale: With research and our on ground model supporting us, grow evidence backed press, films, media, and outreach that shift the national conversation about autism and inclusion.
Brain Bristle was born from the knowing that today, in India 1 out of every 100 under 10 year olds is diagnosed on the autism spectrum. More than 70% of them are in our country's inclusive public schools or a part of our 5500+ special schools.
We, at Brain Bristle wondered, maybe if we supported a small set of students across Mumbai towards phenomenal work, our voice, system and echo would reach far.
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