Vaishali is an Occupational Therapist and qualified Early Interventionist, practicing
in Bangalore, India, for the last 30+ years. Never the one to give up on any opportunity, she has studied a number of different courses in these 30 years, that have helped her increaseher repertoire of treatment options from basic Occupational Therapy to include fields such as Early Intervention in Pediatric Neurology, Myofascial Release techniques, Kinesiotaping, Neuro-Linguistic Programing, Pranic Healing, Biofeedback, and so on. She has used these skills while working with sports persons from various backgrounds/fields, in both the areas of injury prevention, and treatment, and enhancing performance to working with children with developmental disabilities resulting due to brain damage.
In 2009, she founded Tamahar Trust, a not-for-profit entity to provide holistic services for children with special needs and their families at Malleswaram, Bangalore. ‘Tamahar’, (San-skrit), a portmanteau that means, “Remover of Darkness” caters to children with developmental disability and their families. Tamahar Trust is now involved in capacity building and human resource development in this sector along with creating out-reach centres for disadvantaged communities in the state.
