PRINICIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Parul Gupta is a child and rehabilitation psychologist who has worked with children and young adults for more than 20 years. She holds a bachelors and Masters degree in Psychology from Delhi University. Parul further refined her skills by doing a second post graduate program in child and adolescent psychology from Kings College, London. In her long career, She has laid the foundation for developmental work at many organizations including Sparsh (therapy center for autistic children), American Excelsior School, Children First and Potentials. With a keen interest and desire to spread her skill set, she has been delivering guest lectures and master classes at many renowned institutes like National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development, Special Olympics Bharat, National Institute of Mental Handicap, Action for Autism, Jindal Institute of Behavioral Sciences.

Parul Heads a team of 20+ therapists from all departments to ensure integrative and quality therapy delivery to the families that visit Potentials. A part of her work involves training new therapists and parents through skill development workshops, courses and guided hands-on trainings. The families joining hands with Potentials, though its on-line programs come from all over India and beyond including Germany, UK, Canada and Sri Lanka.

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Sara Ann Schuchert is an applied linguist who has worked with neurodivergent individuals for over 25 years. She is deeply curious about the intersection between pragmatic language, social interaction skills, and child development. Sara Ann earned bachelor's degrees in Linguistics and in World Arts and Cultures and an M.A. in Applied Linguistics: Neurobiology of Language - all from UCLA.

Sara Ann began her journey with neurodivergent individuals as a research assistant in the NeuroPsycholinguistics Laboratory at UCLA in 1994. When she administered assessments to young children with language delay she discovered that these tools focused primarily on spoken words and did not capture non-verbal, emotional and social communication skills thereby limiting the acknowledgement of all existing communication skills. Thus began a decades-long quest for a method to define, measure, and teach social interaction and communication skills. Over the ensuing decades Sara Ann deepened her understanding of cognitive and language development, attention and social communication, while working and training in person, and online with various organizations in a multitude of sectors including Los Angeles Unified School District, Pacific Gas & Electric, Special Olympics Bharat, The British School, India, and more. In 2014, Sara Ann added remote/online work to her in-person offerings and has since provided highly effective therapeutic input, parent workshops and professional training and development across time zones and continents, including all of North America, India, Spain, Denmark, Ireland, UK, and Argentina.

RESEARCH LEAD

Aastha Rathour is a Research Lead with Potentials Therapy Center, New Delhi and Eye to I research team, currently co-leading the Eye to I research team. She is a Psychology graduate from Delhi University and has a Masters in Counseling Psychology. She has a keen interest in qualitative research specifically in the area of social psychology and its dynamic phenomenon. She has published a secondary paper and presented it at a research conclave organized in affiliation with UNESCO New Delhi. She is passionate about exploring the role of families on social development of children and currently fascinated to explore child-parent attachment. She aims to progress in the field of academia and research with a sheer amount of experience and inquisitiveness and a simultaneous interest in grasping new ways to grow.

RESEARCH LEAD

Hello, I am Muskan. I’m passionate about research, especially understanding human behavior. That's why I studied Psychology and then Behavioral Sciences. I have a Bachelor's in psychology from the University of Delhi and a M.A. in Clinical Psychology. I love diving into books to learn new things. If I'm not reading, you can catch me watching rom-com movies. It’s all about exploring stories and people for me.

RESEARCH LEAD

Aprajita Negi is a Research Lead with Potentials Therapy Center, New Delhi and Eye to I research team. She has a Phd. in Bio-chemistry and Masters in Psychology. She is a trained Montessori Elementary guide and with her husband, she has been homeschooling their 12 year old son since he was five. After spending a few years as a University teacher, now she studies Vedanta, practices Yoga and does crochet.