Indian start-up company offering paid early childhood intervention as in-house services

LoveForLife Rehabilitation Services (LFL Care), India: Offers personalized parent-child counselling and early intervention services. In 2022–2023, served over 500 children, mostly aged 0 to 6 years, with various therapies and educational support.

LoveForLife Rehabilitation Services (LFL Care) is a start-up organization, recognized by the Government of India and based in New Delhi. LFL Care offers quality personalized parent-child counselling and early intervention programmes for children with special needs as a paid service, throughout India. The in-house support is based on a customized plan and can include music, occupational, or speech therapy; clinical psychology; special education; or other services. More than 500 children were served in 2022–2023, most of them between 0 and six years old.

Problems Targeted

In India children with disabilities have limited access to early diagnosis, health care, and rehabilitation services, especially in remote areas.

Solution, Innovation and Impact

LFL Care provides integrated therapeutic services that follow a multidisciplinary clinical approach for early intervention and child development assessments. LFL offers personalized home-based rehabilitation services, including speech therapy, occupational therapy, psychologist review, and special education. Therapists tailor therapy programmes to the client’s home environment by incorporating games, puzzles, music, and interactive activities into therapy sessions. Each child receives a customized programme delivered at home by trained therapists. Home visits reduce costs and the need for hospital visits, and they enable LFL to reach out to remote areas. LFL Care offers services based on subscription for the number of rehabilitation sessions chosen. This includes at-home child assessment, rehabilitation sessions, psychologist review, and support materials for play activities. The cost per session varies from INR 800 to 1,500 ($10 to $16) per hour, based on the city and the number of sessions chosen taken by the clients. LFL Care estimates that family income has to be a minimum of INR 50,000 ($600) per month to afford its service, but also offers discounts and provides support to connect families to funding from NGOs, etc. Caregivers have a significant role in the home-based rehabilitation process. Programmes and interventions are also designed to reduce caregiver burden and stress levels, and to build knowledge and capacity through surveys, interviews, and assessment tools.

Funding, Outlook and Transferability

LFL Care was started with initial funding by its founder in 2017. It is organized as a paid service for the parents or caregivers of the children, to be self-sustainable, and able to expand its reach within the country. LFL Care seeks to serve over 10,000 persons by 2025 across India, based also on collaborations with institutions, NGOs, and government bodies. The organization also invests in creating digital and physical infrastructure for the skills development of rehabilitation professionals. (Awardee 2024)

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LFL Care offers early intervention for children with special needs in India as a paid service.

LFL Care offers early intervention for children with special needs in India as a paid service.

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