Avishi Center · Uttarahalli, Bangalore
School Readiness Program Bangalore - Foundation Skills Program For Autistic Children
The Foundation Skills Program (FSP) at Avishi Center is a structured morning school readiness program in Bangalore for children aged 3 to 12 who are not yet ready for mainstream school. It bridges the gap between therapy and the classroom – blending special education, ABA-informed teaching, and activity-based group learning within a consistent, predictable daily schedule.
About the Programme
What is Avishi's School Readiness Program Bangalore?
The Foundation Skills Program (FSP) is Avishi Center’s structured morning school readiness programme in Bangalore for children aged 3 to 12. It is designed for children with autism spectrum disorder, developmental delays, or those who are not yet ready for a mainstream classroom. The FSP runs on weekday mornings and provides a safe, consistent group learning environment that builds the 7 foundational skill areas every child needs before entering formal school.
Unlike a standard preschool, the FSP is clinically informed. The curriculum draws on special education principles, is shaped by ABA-informed teaching methods, and is delivered within a daily schedule that mirrors what a child will encounter in mainstream school — group instruction, activity transitions, peer interaction, and independent task time. Activity content within each block rotates across the week and month to maintain engagement while reinforcing consistent skill development.
Research note: Structured early intervention programmes significantly improve school readiness outcomes for children with developmental delays. The National Association of Special Education Teachers outlines the evidence base at naset.org.
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What is the Foundation Skills Program?
The Foundation Skills Program is a morning school readiness programme at Avishi Center, Bangalore, for children aged 3 to 12 with autism or developmental delays. It combines special education, ABA-informed teaching, and group learning in a structured daily schedule, with therapy sessions integrated for children who need them.
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Which Children Benefit From This School Readiness Program In Bangalore?
The FSP is designed for children who have the basic capacity for group learning but need a structured, supportive environment to build the skills that mainstream school assumes children already have. It is also the natural next step for children completing ABA or speech therapy at Avishi who are ready to practise those skills with real peers in a real group setting.
Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder
The FSP provides the predictable structure, visual schedules, and small-group instruction that autistic children need to develop classroom readiness before entering a mainstream environment.
Children With Speech and Language Delays
Group activities in the FSP - morning circles, language sessions, social learning — create natural communication opportunities that complement and extend individual speech therapy targets.
Children Completing Therapy at Avishi
The FSP is the natural bridge for children who have built foundational skills through ABA or speech therapy and are ready to apply those skills in a real group environment before mainstream school.
Children With Developmental Delays
Children developing more slowly than peers across cognition, behaviour, or daily living skills benefit from the FSP curriculum, which builds each skill in a logical, supported, and clinically informed sequence.
Children With Social Skills Difficulties
The FSP group format creates daily opportunities for facilitated peer interaction, turn-taking, cooperative play, and social language - skills that cannot be built through one-to-one therapy alone.
Children Not Yet Ready for Mainstream School
If a school has advised waiting another year, or if you sense your child is not ready but has no formal diagnosis, the FSP provides a purposeful, structured year of pre-academic and social preparation.
What Children Learn
7 Learning Areas in the Foundation Skills Program
The FSP curriculum is built around 7 skill areas that mainstream schools assume children arrive with, but that children with developmental delays often need explicit, structured teaching to develop. Each area is delivered through a mix of group instruction, play-based activity, and individual practice within the group setting.
Sensory and Fine Motor Skills
Pencil grip, scissor use, colouring, cutting, pasting, and sensory exploration activities that build hand strength, coordination, and sensory regulation — the physical foundations needed for writing and classroom participation.
Gross Motor and Physical Development
Balance, coordination, body awareness, and movement activities that build the physical confidence children need to manage a school environment, sit for learning, and participate in sports and outdoor activities.
Communication and Language
Vocabulary building, following instructions, answering questions, narrative skills, and the language of the classroom. For children in speech therapy, these group sessions reinforce individual therapy targets in a naturalistic peer context.
Lunch and Self-Care Skills
Managing a lunchbox, self-feeding, hygiene routines, and daily living skills that school assumes children manage independently. Building these within the FSP means children arrive at mainstream school ready to handle their own daily routines.
Numeracy and Logical Thinking
Counting, sorting, patterns, sequencing, and early mathematical concepts introduced through concrete materials and activity-based tasks, adapted to each child’s developmental level.
Creativity and Culture
Arts, crafts, cultural activities, and creative expression that provide sensory input, support emotional expression, build fine motor skills, and make the FSP morning something children genuinely look forward to.
Social Learning and Classroom Readiness
Sitting in a group, transitioning between activities, managing waiting, following a schedule, tolerating change, and regulating emotions in a shared space. These invisible prerequisites for school success are explicitly taught every day.
The FSP Day
Foundation Skills Program Daily Timetable
The school readiness program Bangalore timetable is built around two key principles. First, full-group blocks – Communication and Language, Gross Motor, Numeracy, Creativity, and Closing Circle – are always protected from pull-outs because peer presence is the learning context. Second, Sensory and Fine Motor is split into two blocks to accommodate the two dedicated therapy pull-out windows for families whose child is also enrolled in individual ABA or speech therapy at Avishi.
🔒 Why full-group blocks are protected
Communication and Language, Gross Motor, Numeracy, Creativity, and Closing Circle require all peers present. The learning objective of these blocks depends on group dynamics — they cannot be replicated with fewer children.
📋 Activity content rotates weekly
The specific activities within each block rotate across the week and month to maintain engagement while reinforcing consistent skill development across all 7 learning areas.
💡 Not every FSP child needs therapy pull-outs
Therapy pull-out windows are used only for children whose assessment indicates individual therapy is needed. Children not in therapy participate fully in all blocks throughout the morning.
Your Child's Team
Meet the Foundation Skills Program Team
The FSP is led by qualified, experienced educators. All staff work under the clinical oversight of Akhila, our clinical lead, who holds dual BCBA and QBA (QABA) certification alongside an MSc in Psychology.
Varsha Ramadas
Qualifications
Special Education · B.Ed. Special Education
Kusuma Madhavi
Qualifications
MSc Psychology · Diploma in Montessori Education
Integrated Therapy
How Individual Therapy Fits Within the Foundation Skills Program
Not every child in the FSP requires individual therapy. The Foundation Skills Program is a school readiness program first – therapy is integrated only for children whose assessment indicates individual support is needed. It is not a prerequisite for joining the FSP.
For children who do receive ABA or speech therapy at Avishi, the FSP timetable includes two dedicated pull-out windows (09:45 to 10:30 and 11:15 to 12:00). Both windows are scheduled so the child misses only individually paced activities – Sensory and Fine Motor and Lunch Self-Care – and never misses a full-group protected block. This means children receive both group learning and individual therapy within a single morning.
The FSP teaching team and the therapy team coordinate weekly. Goals set in individual therapy are reinforced within the FSP classroom, and the teacher’s observations inform therapy planning. This is the integrated model that distinguishes the FSP from a standard school program.
- Two pull-out windows: 09:45–10:30 and 11:15–12:00
- Children miss only individually paced blocks during pull-outs
- Full-group protected blocks are never disrupted
- Weekly coordination between therapy and FSP teaching teams
- Children not in therapy participate fully in every block
What Comes Next
From the Foundation Skills Program to Mainstream School
The FSP is not an end in itself — it is preparation for the real classroom. Every element of the timetable, curriculum, and daily routine is designed to approximate what mainstream school will demand, so children transition with genuine readiness rather than simply reaching the right age.
When a child in the FSP is approaching mainstream school readiness, the Avishi team provides a transition support process: a written progress summary covering communication, behaviour, academic foundations, and daily living skills; guidance on school selection in Bangalore; and recommendations for ongoing therapy or the After School Program if continued support is needed after school enrolment.
- Written school readiness summary for parents and receiving schools
- Guidance on mainstream school selection in Bangalore
- Recommendations for ongoing therapy post-enrolment
- ABA and speech therapy continue alongside school if needed
- After School Program available for continued afternoon support
The Avishi School Readiness Pathway
Comprehensive Assessment
22-domain evaluation to understand your child's profile
ABA or Speech Therapy
Individual therapy to build foundational skills
Foundation Skills Program
Group school readiness in a structured morning programme
Mainstream School
With After School Program or therapy support as needed
Also at Avishi
Services That Work Alongside the Foundation Skills Program
ABA and Behavioral Therapy
Individual ABA therapy pull-out sessions are built into the FSP timetable. Children receiving ABA at Avishi bring those skills into the FSP classroom every single day.
Learn about ABA Therapy →Speech and Language Therapy
Speech therapy pull-outs are embedded within the FSP morning. Language goals are reinforced across the full programme through the Communication and Language group block.
Learn about Speech Therapy →After School Program
When FSP children transition to mainstream school, the After School Program provides continued support, social enrichment, and homework help in the afternoons — Mon to Fri, 3:45 to 4:30 PM.
Learn about the ASP →Give Your Child a Confident Start at School
Enquire about the Foundation Skills Program Bangalore at Avishi Center. We will explain whether the FSP is the right fit for your child, walk you through the assessment process, and answer every question before you make any decision.
Avishi Center · Uttarahalli, Bangalore · Ages 3 to 7 · Mon to Fri Mornings · BCBA + QBA Oversight
Common Questions
Frequently Asked Questions About the Foundation Skills Program
The Foundation Skills Program (FSP) is a structured morning school readiness programme at Avishi Center, Uttarahalli, Bangalore, for children aged 3 to 12 with autism or developmental delays. It combines special education, ABA-informed teaching, communication and language activities, social learning, and early numeracy in a consistent daily timetable, Monday to Friday.
The FSP morning runs from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Therapy pull-out windows are 09:45 to 10:30 and 11:15 to 12:00. The main group programme blocks run from 10:00 AM through to Closing Circle at 1:00 PM.
No. The FSP is a standalone school readiness programme. Children do not need to be enrolled in ABA or speech therapy at Avishi to join. However, for children who are receiving therapy at Avishi, the FSP timetable includes two dedicated pull-out windows so therapy continues without disrupting group learning.
The FSP is designed for children aged 3 to 12. Placement is based on each child’s developmental assessment results and readiness for group learning, not age alone. All children begin with a comprehensive clinical assessment at Avishi before FSP enrolment.
Unlike a standard preschool, the FSP is clinically informed. The curriculum is built on special education principles, shaped by ABA-informed teaching, and delivered by qualified educators under BCBA and QBA-certified clinical oversight. The timetable is specifically designed to build the skills children with developmental delays need for mainstream school readiness.
The FSP is led by Varsha Ramadas, a qualified special educator with a B.Ed. in Special Education. Kusuma Madhavi supports the programme with an MSc in Psychology and a Diploma in Montessori Education. All FSP staff work under the clinical oversight of Akhila, who holds BCBA and QBA (QABA) certifications and an MSc in Psychology.
The FSP prepares children for mainstream school entry. When a child approaches readiness, Avishi provides a written progress summary, guidance on school selection in Bangalore, and recommendations for ongoing support. The After School Program (ASP) at Avishi is available for children who need continued afternoon support after school enrolment.
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Foundation Skills Program Bangalore at Avishi Center Uttarahalli. The Foundation Skills Program Bangalore is a morning school readiness programme for children aged 3 to 7 with autism. Avishi Center Foundation Skills Program Bangalore provides structured group learning under BCBA and QBA oversight. Parents looking for a Foundation Skills Program Bangalore will find Avishi Center a clinically rigorous, evidence-based option for school readiness.
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