Silent Starer to Chatterbox Sitarist

Have not written any post since August this year.  It is long time.  Many people have been asking me details about the process that went through to improve my daughter Pratibha.  When I started writing it, it is becoming longer and longer.  So first created an executive summary kind of post, and continued preparing the detailed note.  Let me publish this short post today, and in a week's time will have the longer post, for those who wanted to know the details on how we went about systematically transforming Pratibha from a Silent Starer to a Chatterbox Sitarist.

This short post is created from a PPT presentation.  

At the age of 10, when Pratibha was going to a special school in Chennai, she used to sit in the last row in the room facing the wall, as she didn't have confidence to look at people's face and communicate.

Will present the method of measurement and monitoring in the forthcoming detailed post.  

The above picture presents Pratibha's growth in last 2 years.  The PET Scan taken in August 2014 and November 2016 illustrates the increased activity levels in brain and that too with more spread.  Changes in IQ and FIM are self explanatory.

Currently Pratibha works at Arpan, a supported employment initiative by the NGO Yash Charitable Trust.  At Arpan, delicious home cooked meals are freshly prepared and delivered to customers.    

In a recent cooking competition the team of Pratibha and Aarti won 2nd prize.  The competition was judged by celebrity chef Sanjeev Kapoor and Alyona Kapoor.   A short video here demonstrates Pratibha's interest and passion in cooking.

Recently in Trivandrum, Pratibha presented a close to one hour Sitar performance.  Pratibha could perform for an hour without any strain, and that too with minimum mistakes.  Later Pratibha repeated the performance at Alappuzha TD temple too.  Then a 6 minutes performance at CETAGalaxy Global Meet at Bolgatty Palace Kochi, and a 12 minute performance at "Kochi International Book Fair".   Here's the video of the performance at CETAGalaxy Global Meet.

This post is a sneak preview of Pratibha's journey from a 'Silent Starer' to a 'Chatterbox Sitarist'.  I intent to publish the next post with details on what we did and how we did.

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