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About Avishi Center Bangalore - ABA and Speech Therapy Since 2018
Avishi Center Bangalore is a specialist child therapy and development center founded by Akhila S Rao, a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst (BCBA) and Qualified Behaviour Analyst (QBA) with over a decade of clinical ABA experience. What began as home visits in 2018 has grown into a comprehensive center serving 50+ active families in Bangalore – built on clinical rigor, genuine outcomes, and a team that cares deeply about every child in its care.
Why We Exist
Why Avishi Center Bangalore Was Founded
Akhila S Rao did not plan to start a therapy centre. She planned to work with human minds – that pull had been there since she completed her BSc in Psychology from Christ University, Bangalore in 2011. What she did not anticipate was how completely Applied Behaviour Analysis would claim her.
Her first years were spent in the trenches. Working at established centers in Bangalore including Behavior Momentum India and Stepping Stones, she learned directly from clinical experience what effective ABA looked like and what it did not. She was not studying the field from a distance – she was delivering therapy, supervising cases, and watching children make progress that families had stopped daring to expect. The work fit like a second skin.
In 2018, autism diagnoses in Bangalore were rising steadily. Awareness was still close to zero. Therapy centres were either non-existent or so far apart that families were waiting months for assessment and travelling hours for sessions. The gap between need and provision was striking – and it was the kind of gap that only a clinician who had been inside the system could fully see.
Akhila had also reached the ceiling of what working within someone else’s structure would allow. She had ideas, clinical instincts, and a way of working that produced results. But ambition rarely fits neatly inside someone else’s policies. When she left her last position, her clients followed. That is a rare thing in any profession. It told her something important about the relationship she had built and the outcomes she had delivered.
She started with home visits. One child, one session, one hour at a time. But it became clear quickly that this could not scale. She could not be in all places at once, and the children needed consistency, structure, and a team around them. Avishi Center was not a business plan. It was a clinical necessity.
How We Work
The Avishi Center Bangalore Approach to Therapy
Avishi Center Bangalore operates on a single founding principle: no child should receive a therapy program that was not built specifically for them. That sounds obvious. In practice, very few centres in Bangalore deliver on it.
Assessment Before Everything
No child at Avishi receives a therapy plan before a comprehensive 22-domain clinical assessment. We need to understand your child's full developmental profile before we can meaningfully help. There are no shortcuts here.
One Integrated Team
ABA therapists, speech therapists, and FSP educators share a clinical plan for every child. Goals do not live in silos. What is worked on in speech therapy is reinforced in ABA sessions and in the classroom.
Families Are Part of the Programme
Parent training is not optional at Avishi. The most powerful lever for a child's progress is what happens in the hours between sessions. We make sure families have the tools to use those hours well.
Data Drives Every Decision
Progress is tracked at every session. Programmes are reviewed quarterly and adjusted based on what the data shows, not on general impression. Stagnation is caught early and addressed directly.
Our Founder
Akhila S Rao - Founder and Clinical Lead
Akhila S Rao is the founder and clinical lead of Avishi Center Bangalore. She began her career in ABA in 2011 and has spent over a decade working directly with autistic children and children with developmental delays, progressing from therapist to supervisor to clinical lead before founding Avishi in 2018.
She holds dual gold-standard behaviour analysis certifications – BCBA from the Behaviour Analyst Certification Board (BACB) and QBA from the Qualified Applied Behaviour Analysis Credentialing Board (QABA). When she earned her BCBA in 2018, she was one of fewer than five BCBAs practicing in all of India. That number has grown substantially since, and Akhila has been part of why – supervising BCBA, QBA, and RBT aspirants across the country and contributing to the professional development of the field.
In 2015, when BACB temporarily paused certifications for Indian practitioners, Akhila was among a small group of five to eight clinicians who formed a national working group to address the gap. She was instrumental in bringing awareness to the QBA pathway and facilitating the first wave of QBA certifications in India, herself being one of the early recipients.
Full Credentials
Our People
Meet the Avishi Center Bangalore Clinical Team
Every member of the Avishi team is a qualified, credentialled clinician working under the direct clinical oversight of Akhila S Rao. This is not a centre where you meet the director and are then handed off to untrained staff. Every therapist you meet has the qualifications and the supervision to back up what they do.
Ranjani Seetharaman
Monika Dixit
Kusuma Madhavi
Varsha Ramadas
Deeksha Prabhu
Uma Maheswari
Credentials
Certifications and Professional Standards at Avishi Center Bangalore
The credentials held by the Avishi team are not decorative. Each one represents specific training requirements, examination standards, and ongoing continuing education obligations. Here is what the key credentials mean and why they matter for your child’s therapy.
Board Certified Behaviour Analyst
The international gold standard for ABA supervision. Requires postgraduate education, supervised fieldwork hours, and a rigorous examination. Held by Akhila (clinical lead). In 2018 when Akhila was certified, fewer than five BCBAs were practising in India.
Issued by: Behaviour Analyst Certification Board (BACB)
Qualified Applied Behaviour Analyst
An equivalent gold-standard behaviour analysis credential from QABA. Akhila was among the first wave of QBA certified practitioners in India and was instrumental in facilitating the credential's availability to Indian clinicians from 2015 onward.
Issued by: QABA — Qualified Applied Behaviour Analysis Credentialing Board
Rehabilitation Council of India Registration
Mandatory national registration for qualified speech-language pathologists practising in India. RCI registration confirms that a therapist holds a recognised academic qualification in speech-language pathology. Deeksha (Senior SLP) is RCI-registered.
Issued by: Rehabilitation Council of India
Our Journey
Avishi Center Bangalore - Key Milestones
Akhila begins clinical career in ABA at Behavior Momentum India, Bangalore. BSc Psychology, Christ University.
Joins Stepping Stones. Deepens clinical expertise across assessment, intervention, and supervision.
BCaBA from Florida Institute of Technology. Co-founds All India working group when BACB pauses Indian certifications. Begins advocating for QBA pathway in India.
MSc Psychology from University of Madras. Becomes among the first QBA-certified practitioners in India.
BCBA certification - one of fewer than 5 BCBAs in India at that time. Leaves corporate practice. Clients follow. Avishi seeds sown with home visits.
Avishi Center formally incorporated. Physical centre opens in Uttarahalli, Poorna Prajna Layout, Bangalore.
Growth entirely through word of mouth and referrals. Quality of outcomes drives every new client relationship.
Google ratings reflect client trust. 50+ active families. Several founding families still with Avishi today. ABAT training course launched.
By the Numbers
What Families Say
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Common Questions
Frequently Asked Questions About Avishi Center Bangalore
Avishi Center is a specialist child therapy and development centre in Uttarahalli, Bangalore, offering ABA and behavioral therapy, speech and language therapy, comprehensive child assessments, the Foundation Skills Program (morning school readiness for ages 3 to 12), and the After School Program. All therapy programmes are supervised by Akhila S Rao, who holds dual BCBA and QBA certification alongside an MSc in Psychology.
Avishi Center was formally incorporated in 2020. The seeds were sown in 2018 when Akhila S Rao began providing individual ABA therapy through home visits after leaving her previous clinical role. Several families who joined Avishi in 2018 and 2019 remain active clients today.
Avishi Center was founded by Akhila S Rao, a Board Certified Behaviour Analyst (BCBA) and Qualified Applied Behaviour Analyst (QBA). Akhila began her clinical ABA career in 2011 and was one of fewer than five BCBAs practising in India when she earned her certification in 2018. She holds an MSc in Psychology from the University of Madras and a BCaBA from Florida Institute of Technology.
Yes. The ABA team includes a Senior ABA Therapist (MSc Psychology, QBA Trainee under Akhila’s direct supervision), an ABAT-certified therapist, and an MSc Psychology graduate with a Diploma in Montessori Education. The speech therapy team includes a Senior Speech-Language Pathologist with an MSc in SLP and RCI registration, and a BSc Speech Language Pathology therapist. All staff work under BCBA and QBA certified clinical oversight.
Three things distinguish Avishi Center in Bangalore. First, dual BCBA and QBA certified clinical oversight – credentials held by fewer than a handful of clinicians in India. Second, a genuine integrated team model where ABA therapists, speech therapists, and educators share a clinical plan for every child. Third, an assessment-first approach where no programme is set before a comprehensive 22-domain clinical evaluation is completed.
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Avishi Center Bangalore is a BCBA and QBA certified ABA and speech therapy centre in Uttarahalli. Avishi Center Bangalore was founded by Akhila S Rao in 2018. Parents seeking ABA and speech therapy at Avishi Center Bangalore will find a clinically rigorous, assessment-first approach. Avishi Center Bangalore offers five integrated therapy programmes for children with autism and developmental delays.
Avishi Center– ABA and Speech Therapy Bangalore
Top Rated Therapy Center For Autistic Kids
Uttarahalli — Poorna Prajna Layout, Bangalore, Karnataka
[+91-89716570872] · [contactus@avishicenter.com]
Park, 827, Skanda, 29th Main Road, near Arehalli Arch, Poorna Prajna Layout, Purnapragnya Layout, Poornapragna Housing Society L, Uttarahalli Hobli, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560061