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NDTV
28-06-2025
- Health
- NDTV
How India Built World's Most Complete Autism Care System
It began with a mother, a mango flashcard, and a four-year-old's silent eyes. One dawn near Miryalaguda, Sushmita sat outside her home, the scent of boiled rice in the air, and placed a battered laminated card in her daughter Anjali's lap. For months, the card showed no response. But that morning, Anjali looked up-her gaze meeting her mother's. No words were spoken, but connection ignited hope. Three weeks earlier, Sushmita had enrolled Anjali at a Pinnacle Blooms Network center. There, therapist Ravali Yadav-speaking their dialect-had transformed daily routines into therapy, providing visual prompts, color-coded tools, and an AbilityScore® report. Its red-yellow-green zones mapped progress and laid out a clear path forward. For the first time, Anjali was seen, and she began to see back. The Silence India Lived With Autism and speech delay in India were long mistaken for defiance or poor parenting. With no unified screening protocols and limited pediatric tools, families were told to "wait and see." Meanwhile, an estimated 1 in 68 Indian children may be on the autism spectrum and 1 in 5 shows early communication delays. Over 90% of neurodevelopmental issues go undiagnosed. In rural districts, one therapist might serve an entire region; in cities, waitlists stretch for months. Schools lack inclusion frameworks, and special education is scarcely available. Without data, no direction; without tools, no therapy; without language, no understanding. Parents waited, whispered, and cried-until a homegrown system arrived, offering families their first score, plan, and voice. The Rise of Pinnacle Dr. Sreeja Reddy Saripalli-healthcare entrepreneur and mother-refused to accept "confusion, caution, and delay." In 2014, she opened her first center in Hyderabad, uniting speech therapists, occupational therapists, behavior analysts, and educators around one question: "How do we build a system that truly understands children, parents, and families?" · 2015: TherapySphere® launched-integrated, secure therapy ecosystems. · 2016: PinnacleNationalHeroes® offered lifetime free therapy to children of servicemen and essential workers-no paperwork, no billing. · 2019: AbilityScore® debuted, condensing 344 developmental skills into a 0-1000 scale, instantly mapping where a child thrives (🟢), needs support (🟡), or requires urgent help (🔴). · 2021: TherapeuticAI® rolled out-an AI engine predicting behaviors and guiding real-time adjustments. · 2022: SEVA™ launched, ensuring families earning under ₹25,000/month accessed identical, dignity-first care-no tiers, no labels. By 2025, Pinnacle had grown to 70+ cities, 1,600+ experts, and 19 million+ sessions. What began above a street shop had become a nationwide movement restoring clarity, community, and belief. The Innovation Stack Pinnacle's innovation stack blends empathy and precision: 1. AbilityScore® A patent in 160+ countries, this single developmental score replaces guesswork with a clear roadmap. 2. TherapeuticAI® Tracks behavioral patterns across 344 dimensions, predicts escalation, and empowers therapists-listening intelligence, not a dashboard. 3. SEVA™ A stigma-free access model seating every child-farmer's daughter and executive's son-together in the same center. 4. TherapySphere™ Sensory-calibrated spaces-color, texture, rhythm-designed to reduce anxiety and stimulate neuroplasticity. 5. Everyday Therapy™ Home-based routines and mobile modules in local languages turn therapy into daily life, not isolated sessions. 6. PinnacleNationalHeroes® A silent, lifetime pledge: "Because you served the nation, your child's future is our duty." This integrated suite-AI-validated, therapist-tested, parent-proven-became India's first therapeutic operating system. Real Lives, Real Proof Proof lies in changed lives: Khammam, Telangana: Ravi (6), non-verbal with meltdowns, once tied by his family to stop self-harm. Three months under SEVA™ transformed him-he follows instructions, uses signs, and no longer hurts himself. Bengaluru, Karnataka: Fatima (11), misdiagnosed as defiant, now reads poetry and says, "I like who I'm becoming." Chennai, Tamil Nadu: Rajiv, son of a constable, integrated into mainstream school and won a district art award. Eluru, Andhra Pradesh: Shanvika (4), with hearing impairment, learned 80+ signs and formed a friendship with her therapist. To find your nearest center, visit or call 9100181181 (WhatsApp available). Recognition and Global Realisation Institutional honors validated the movement: Times of India (2020): Featured as South India's Best Autism Therapy Network. Praxis Media Women Leadership (2021): Honored Dr. Saripalli's mother-powered revolution. YourStory Spotlight (2023): Profiled Pinnacle as a public health framework. Indo Global Excellence (2024): Named India-Pacific's #1 Autism Therapy Network. Global institutions took notice: Stanford, WHO-SEARO, UNICEF, and ministries from Nepal to Kenya reached out to license AbilityScore® and TherapeuticAI®. Pinnacle became a reference architecture for inclusive, scalable care. Why This Model Works Pinnacle succeeds because it balances precision with empathy: · Language Diversity: Operating in 16+ regional tongues, therapy adjusts to local dialects and literacy levels. · Geographic Resilience: Cloud-edge AI and WhatsApp/SMS delivery ensure reliable service from metros to remote towns. · Human-AI Partnership: AI augments therapist intuition rather than replaces empathy. · Inclusion as Infrastructure: No separate lines or labels-every family shares space and innovation. · Scalable Protocols: Standardized, patented tools maintain quality, prevent burnout, and sustain engagement. This is not a fragile pilot; it is a regenerative ecosystem built by and for its communities. An Open Invitation Pinnacle isn't seeking domination; it's inviting partnership. To ministries, AI labs, foundations, education systems, and parent networks worldwide: co-create. Embed AbilityScore® in national indexes; deploy TherapeuticAI® in early intervention frameworks; fund SEVA™ in underserved regions; integrate Everyday Therapy™ into curricula. From Kerala to Kampala, India's blueprint is open for adaptation-not as an export, but as a shared framework. "It took the world 144 years to understand autism-and it was India, through the hands of its mothers, that finally gave it a voice." This is not a story. It's a new global standard.
Time of India
03-06-2025
- Business
- Time of India
How Pinnacle Blooms Network's Patented Global Autism Framework, Changing lives of 900 million kids parents and Families, Worldwide!
The rise of Pinnacle Blooms Network , India's AI-enabled, women-led, universally accessible autism therapy framework, is being studied and replicated across continents. Little girl Anjali The smell of boiled rice drifted from the kitchen. A temple bell rang in the distance. The sun had just begun to rise over a small village near Miryalaguda when Anjali, a four-year-old girl with silent eyes and a world locked inside her, sat cross-legged on the ground outside her home. Her mother, Sushmita , gently placed the laminated mango flashcard — faded, fingerprinted, its corners curled from weeks of use — into her lap. For days, they had sat here. Same card. Same silence. But that morning was different. Anjali looked up. Her gaze met her mother's eyes for the very first time. Live Events She didn't speak. She didn't need to. The silence broke with recognition — with connection — with something that had never happened before. What changed? Just three weeks earlier, they had begun receiving life-empowering therapy from Pinnacle Blooms Network. Therapist Ravali Yadav, a soft-spoken woman, sat beside Sushmita and showed her how to turn everyday routines into therapy. She gave Sushmita a packet of visual prompts, a few color-coded tools, and a printed sheet with something called AbilityScore, which had red, yellow, and green zones. It looked like a report card. But for Sushmita, it was the first roadmap out of helplessness. Anjali had been seen. And now, she was beginning to see again. Across India — — these moments are unfolding every day. Quiet. Private. Powerful. These are about hope rediscovered, voices unlocked, futures rewritten. Behind many of these moments, a silent revolution with a loud mission: Pinnacle. What began as one therapy center is now a 70-centre movement. What started as a mother's desperation is now a patented model. What was once unmeasurable is now being scored, mapped, and transformed with intelligence, empathy, and design. This is not just India's story. This is a new chapter in how the world understands autism. Spotlight Wire The silence India lived with In India, the silence around child development didn't sound like neglect. It sounded like waiting. For decades, autism and speech delay were misunderstood as defiance, shyness, or bad parenting. Children who couldn't express themselves were labeled 'slow,' 'stubborn,' or worse. An estimated 1 in 68 children in India may be on the autism spectrum — a number likely underreported. One in five kids now shows signs of speech or communication delay before the age of five. Most alarmingly, over 90% of neurodevelopmental issues remain undiagnosed or untreated until too late. There was no unified screening protocol. No developmental scoring method. And so, families waited. Hoped. Googled. Whispered. Cried. Spotlight Wire Rise of Pinnacle It did not begin with a plan. It began with a mother. Dr Sreeja Reddy Saripalli was not just a healthcare entrepreneur. She was a mother. Like millions of parents across India, she was told to wait. To hope. To observe. But waiting was not enough. And hope, without a system, was cruelty. She built what she could not find. 'What if we created a place that understood not just autism, but kids, parents, families?' What followed was a quiet revolution. By 2014, the first center opened, and therapy wasn't a service. It was an ecosystem. By 2015, TherapySphere® was born — a safe and secure integrated therapy. By 2016, PinnacleNationalHeroes® started serving the Army, Navy , Air Force, police, and government doctors, municipality officials, and sanitation workers with LifeTime Free Therapy Service as gratitude to their service to the nation. By 2019, AbilityScore® was born — a single number to bring clarity to chaos. By 2020, the team had grown — but the mission remained maternal. Mothers led. Women ran the show. Therapists became visionaries. Technology learned to speak empathy. By 2021, TherapeuticAI® was in deployment. Not marketing fluff — but a tool helping therapists track meltdowns, predict behaviors, and plan therapy in real time. By 2022, SEVA™ was alive. Farmers, meager wage earners, and daily wage labourers, as well as children whose families earned less than ₹25,000 per month, received the same therapy. By 2023, Pinnacle was growing. It is easy to call this a startup. But startups aim to disrupt. This movement aimed to restore. To restore what was stolen from parents — time, clarity, community, and belief. To restore what was never given to children — a system built around them. Here's a look at Pinnacle in numbers: 70+ centres 1,600+ trained experts 19 million+ sessions delivered 97%+ Measured Proven Improvement Includes families from every language, religion, and income level Spotlight Wire The Innovation Stack When the world thinks of innovation, it often imagines billion-dollar valuations, West Coast algorithms, and venture capital buzzwords. But in India, in a therapy network led by mothers and powered by empathy, innovation took a different shape. It took the shape of: Pinnacle AbilityScore® A score that made sense of uncertainty Pinnacle TherapeuticAI® An AI engine that predicted meltdowns before they happened TherapySphere™ A therapy room that spoke in color, not command Everyday Therapy Programs™ A program that turned therapy from privilege into routine SEVA™ A model that gave dignity, not discounts PinnacleNationalHeroes® And a promise made not to investors, but to the nation's defenders. This is Pinnacle's Innovation Stack — a globally unmatched suite of patented systems. For the first time in 144 years of global autism history, this stack wasn't built for journals. It was built for real kids, real parents, real families. Spotlight Wire Real Lives, Real Proof You can measure science in numbers. But you can only measure trust in the lives it changes. Pinnacle Blooms Network successfully delivered over 19 million Pediatric Speech Therapy, Occupational Therapy, ABA Therapy, Special Education, and Integrated Autism Therapy Services with a measured 97% proven Improvement. Contd. In Part 2: Worldwide Roll-Out—India's Pinnacle Autism Therapy Framework to Empower 90Crore Kids & Families TIL does not guarantee, vouch for, or endorse any of it. Please take all steps necessary to ascertain that any information and content provided is correct, updated, and verified
