Sehgal, Poorna

Poorna is a highly motivated, Special Educator with total 2.8 years of experience and using OPT with special need kids for 2 years now. She used her knowledge as a Special educator and techniques like Braingym, Handwriting without Tears and MNRI, she work with Children with Learning Disabilities.

Poorna Sehgal is a TalkTools® Level 3 OPT™ Specialist.

Work Experience

Special Educator
MiracleKidz CDC
Jan 2018–till date

• Working with high-functioning autism, speech impairments, dyslexia, and other physical and learning disabilities children.
• Used OPT for 2 years for speech clarity, jaw stability , lip movements and tongue movements.
• Developed treatments plans.
• Worked with more than 50 + kids with most of them seeing a remarkable improvement.
• Used taping techniques from OPT Course Airway, Orthodontics, Apnea & OPT has helped Down Syndrome Children for mouth closure.
• Used Feeding techniques from OPT Course Feeding: A Sensory Motor Approach has immensely helped children with feeding issues and picky eaters as well.
• Used Vocalization techniques from OPT Course Vocalization on Command successfully.
• Received 95% positive feedback from patients.

Education

2015–2017 National Institute For Empowerment of Persons with Multiple Disabilities
Diploma in Education – Special Education (Cerebral Palsy)

1995–1998 Delhi University
BA in Maths Honours

Activities

• Attended Oral Motor Therapy For Cerebral Palsy conducted by Ms Shereen Oral Placement Therapist Level IV, conducted by NIPMR, Kerala
• Attended National Conference on Developmental Pediatrics – NCDP – 2017