Shahina Alvi

CEO

As CEO at READ has been associated with the institute since 1988.

Currently she is also a director of the organization. In addition to this, she is one of the three course leaders for the READ Diploma Course which is a four-month remedial teacher-training program. She also conducts screening of children with learning disabilities and provides parents with information about how to follow-up with specialists, if required. Apart from this, she provides remedial tuition to students in higher grades. Shahina also conducts workshops on different aspects of learning difficulties encountered by children. She coordinated a four-month program with preschoolers from Kiran School System, Lyari, from August, 2013, to January 2014.

Since September, this year, Shahina is a visiting professor at the Ziauddin College of Speech Language Therapy, Karachi, teaching the students about learning difficulties.

Mona Qaiser

Director

A Remedial Therapist and Director of READ. She is one of the course leaders for the READ Diploma Course. She also carries out Educational Evaluations for children with learning difficulties and conducts workshops for teachers and students

Mona has completed the Orton Gillingham Associate Level Course in June & July, 2014, in Boston, USA.

Rabbiya Abdul Rehman

Psychologist

M.Phil in Clinical Psychology from Bahria University, Karachi, she has spent a couple of years working as a therapist and clinical psychologist in a range of environments. This includes working with young people who had experienced some form of trauma and who were displaying behavioral difficulties. Interventions include couselling, behaviour modification, psycho-educational evaluations, and psychotherapy for a varied clientele.

Azmat Abbas

Remedial Teacher

Azmat Abbas completed the READ Hornsby Diploma Course in 2003, and joined READ as a remedial teacher teaching children with learning difficulties on a one-to-one basis. She has conducted workshops to train teachers at schools and at our institute. She has also conducted some sessions of the READ Diploma Course.

 “Teaching children with learning difficulties has changed my outlook on life completely”, says Azmat.

Nida Alvi

Nida Alvi is a professionally trained Remedial tutor working for the past ten years at our institute. She is also one of the Directors in the Company. Nida did a term of teaching at one of the well known schools where a Resource Center was set up by the institute. Other than that she has conducted workshops on “Sub-skills “ and “Creative Writing” for teachers. Nida was the first person to be nominated from the Institute by the US State Department, for The International  Visitors  Leadership Program. She participated in Seminars on Disability Rights and Issues.