About Us

Dignity. Integrity. Hard work. Qualities that never grow old fashioned. Roopa was one of the pioneers for inclusive education in Bangalore. In the mid-eighties, she was already the Head of the very first resource room which was set up to support children with SLD in mainstream education. She earned her expertise through field experience and tutelage under Mrs. Krishnaswamy, one of the pioneers of special needs education. In 1993, she realized that not enough awareness and support were available to children in the mainstream, consequently partnered with Gayathri Krishna to set up Brindavan. This was one of the earliest initiatives in Bangalore to support children with severe difficulties on the SLD continuum and other special educational needs. A mentor to many generations of special needs educators and support to a vast number of parents and children. Roopa was kind, gentle, empathetic to faults, and never compromised on commitment and quality. Her legacy and philosophy live on at Brindavan.

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Qualification
MSc in Child Development, Diploma in SLD.

Dynamic. Compassionate. Gayathri shared the belief that inclusion was a rare phenomenon in the nineties despite there being a law that recognized the same. A lack of basic skill training for children, identifying differences and supporting it in the mainstream, a lack of awareness and un-trained teachers were the factors that led to a serendipitous meeting with Roopa and a decision to set up Brindavan trust, where a child’s potential was recognized and could be matched with success, and that happened in 1993 June. The primary area of interest was to work on inclusion and Gayathri has led Brindavan to help set up over 20 resource rooms in mainstream schools as well as innumerable training programs and workshops. Philosophy of quality and empathy and a long term focus on being fully committed to positive results is still the goal. Gayathri is the founder trustee and director at Brindavan.

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Qualification
PhD in Education and Psychology from J.N.U

Super creative, child-focused. What started out as a volunteering position rapidly turned into becoming a specialist in math difficulties, an author of math resources, a teacher trainer by precept and a fellow founder trustee at Brindavan. Kusuma was a very quiet, intense and dedicated teacher and trustee, who, in addition to teaching math through intense, structured and sequential methods, also focused on realizing her dream of actualizing talents and capacities through pre-vocational and vocational training. Dogged, patient and soft spoken, she was a mentor of the prevocational program.

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Qualification
Degree in Mathematics