Bangalore · Special needs child care at home
A caregiver for your child, matched to the day you actually have.
Caregivers trained for children with autism, cerebral palsy, Down syndrome and ADHD. Start here if you are not yet sure what your child needs. This page explains what a caregiver does, sends you to the right condition page, and says when hiring one is the wrong next step.
Reviewed by Sister Mary George, B.Sc Nursing, Care DirectorLast updated August 2026
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A caregiver is a trained pair of hands who holds the day.
Families ring us asking for a caregiver and describe a therapist, a special educator or a nurse. Sorting that out in the first conversation saves weeks. A caregiver keeps your child’s daily routine running and repeats what the specialists have set. The specialist work stays with the specialists.
What the caregiver does
- Holds the daily routine: waking, dressing, meals, toileting, play, homework, bath, bedtime
- Carries over the written programme your therapist has set, at the frequency written on it
- Records what actually happened, so the therapist sees a real week instead of a guess
- Takes the child to school, therapy and hospital reviews, and reports back what was said
- Keeps the child physically safe during meltdowns, seizures, running, climbing and falls
- Learns your child’s way of communicating in the first fortnight and uses it, whether that is speech, signs, cards or a tablet
The five jobs this is confused with
- Not a therapist. The caregiver does not assess your child, design exercises or change a therapy plan.
- Not a special educator. Academic teaching and IEP goals belong to a qualified special educator.
- Not a shadow teacher. Shadow support happens inside a classroom under the school’s supervision and is usually a school appointment.
- Not a nurse. No injections, no tube feeding, no suction, no medication given by hand.
- Not a behaviour analyst. The caregiver does not write behaviour plans or run an ABA programme.
- Not a diagnosis. A caregiver cannot tell you what your child has, and should never be asked to.
The value of the role sits in repetition. A physiotherapist sees your child for an hour a week and a speech therapist for less. What happens on the other six days decides how much of that hour holds.
Find your child’s page
Four conditions, four different working days.
The physical work, the language, the risks and the experience we look for all change with the diagnosis. Read the page that matches your child. The detail there is more useful than anything on this one.
Autism support at home
Suits a child whose day comes apart when the routine changes, who has sensory triggers the family already knows, and whose therapy goals need holding between sessions.
Read the pageCerebral palsy child care
Suits a child who needs lifting, transfers, positioning and slow assisted meals, and a parent whose back has carried that weight for years.
Read the pageDown syndrome child care
Suits a child who can do more of their own dressing, feeding and washing than the household currently lets them, and needs an adult patient enough to wait.
Read the pageADHD child support
Suits a child whose afternoons collapse into homework arguments, screens and a bedtime that keeps sliding later.
Read the pageIf your child is not on that list
We match on the daily need, not the label.
Those four pages exist because they are what families search for. They are not the limit of who we place for. We hear regularly from parents of children with global developmental delay, epilepsy alongside another condition, rare genetic and chromosomal conditions, and children waiting on an assessment that has not happened yet.
None of that changes the way we work. What a caregiver needs to know is practical: can your child walk, how do they eat, how do they tell you something is wrong, what happens at night, what sets them off, what is on the therapy plan, and how much of the day one adult can hold. Two children with the same diagnosis often need completely different people. If your child has no diagnosis yet, say so plainly on the enquiry form. It is common and it does not block matching. Describe an ordinary weekday instead.
How matching works
Six things we ask you, before we shortlist anyone.
A placement fails on missing information far more often than on a bad caregiver. These are the six answers we need, and the uncomfortable ones matter most.
- The diagnosis, who made it and when, or an honest statement that there is no diagnosis yet
- The therapy programme in writing, whichever your child is on: physiotherapy, occupational, speech or behaviour work
- How your child communicates: speech, single words, signs, picture cards, a switch, a tablet app or eye pointing
- Triggers that set your child off, and the two or three things that reliably settle them again
- Medical follow-ups already in the diary, and a decision on who gives medication, because the caregiver will not
- The household routine: school hours, therapy days, who is home when, who else lives there, which languages are spoken
Week one is watching
The caregiver shadows you rather than taking over. Meals, transfers, the bath, the bedtime sequence and the drive to therapy are learned in the order your family already does them.
Week two is doing, with you nearby
The caregiver runs parts of the day while you stay in the house. Gaps show up here, and they are cheaper to fix while a parent is still in the room.
The routine gets written down
By the end of the fortnight the day exists on paper: timings, what to do when a meltdown starts, who to call, what the therapist expects. Anyone covering a leave day reads it.
We check in, then check again
We follow up in week one and week four, then quarterly. Caregivers report in daily. For placements past three months, our coordinators visit unannounced.
If the match does not work
Tell us early. A caregiver who is wrong in week one is still wrong in month three, and the child pays for the delay. We replace, and we would rather replace once properly than argue about it. Rough handling, behaviour that worries you, or a caregiver who is not following the therapy plan gets acted on the same day. If your household needs two people, or a nurse rather than a caregiver, we will say so instead of sending a third person to try again.
Live-in or day shift
The nights decide this, more than the budget does.
Most families arrive assuming they want a day shift, then change their mind once they add up how broken the nights already are. Work out which side your hardest hour falls on.
Live-in
The caregiver stays in the house and the cover runs across the night.
- Night needs: repositioning, settling after spasm, toileting, a child who wakes several times
- Overnight seizure observation, where a written seizure plan already exists in the house
- Single-parent households, and households where both parents work full days
- Mornings that start before six, which a day shift cannot reach
- The caregiver needs a place to sleep in the house and an unbroken sleep break in each twenty-four hours. A child who needs someone awake all night is two people, or a nurse.
Day shift
Fixed hours, agreed at the consultation, usually built around school.
- After-school structure: snack, decompression, homework in short blocks, play, screens ending on time
- Therapy carry-over during the day, while the child is alert enough to work
- School drop-off, pick-up and travel to appointments across Bangalore
- Families where a parent or grandparent is home at night and the hard part is the afternoon
- Day shifts are quoted lower than live-in, after a consultation, because the figure depends on hours, travel and how much of the therapy programme falls inside the shift.
A rough rule from the enquiries we take. If somebody in the house is getting up more than twice a night, go live-in, because a day shift does not repair a parent who has not slept. If the nights are settled and the trouble starts at four in the afternoon, a day shift is enough and costs less. Where you also want school-hours attendance, check with the school first. Attendant access varies across Bangalore schools.
Training and verification
What we check, and what checking cannot tell you.
Every caregiver goes through the same six screening steps, whatever the placement. Roughly one applicant in four gets through them.
- Aadhaar biometrically authenticated through UIDAI before any other screening starts
- At least two government IDs, with permanent and current address verified
- A structured in-person interview at one of our offices, about 45 to 60 minutes
- Court-record and database checks through a regulated verification partner, plus telephone references with two previous employers
- Condition-specific experience review: hands-on work with the relevant condition in the last 12 to 18 months
- Pre-placement health screening covering communicable disease, vision and physical capacity for the role
You see the paperwork before you commit. A masked Aadhaar copy, a government ID, the verification summary and the reference contacts go to the family ahead of placement. Once a caregiver starts they report to our team daily, we follow up in week one, week four and then quarterly, and every active caregiver is re-verified each year.
Verification establishes identity, history and prior hands-on experience with the condition. It is not a qualification. We do not issue certificates and we do not run a school, so a caregiver who has looked after four children with autism is experienced rather than formally trained. Screening also says nothing about whether this person and your child will get on. Meet the caregiver and watch the first hour yourself.
Rate
What it costs, before you ask.
That figure is the caregiver’s monthly cost. Day shifts are quoted lower after a consultation, once we know the hours, your child’s age and weight, how much physical handling is involved and whether school and therapy travel sit inside the shift. A second person for transfers or bath times, where one is needed, is quoted separately.
Honest expectations
What the caregiver does, and doesn’t.
Clear scope from day one keeps the placement happy on both sides. Here’s exactly what to expect.
Included in care
- Personal care, bathing, grooming, dressing, toilet assistance
- Oral feeding and meal-time support
- Oral medication reminders, on schedule
- Safe walking, transfers and mobility support
- Companionship, conversation and daily engagement
- Light tidying of the care recipient’s room and washroom
- Washing the care recipient’s clothes (machine wash)
- Preparing simple meals for the care recipient
Not included (we arrange specialists instead)
- Injections, IV lines, Ryle’s tube or any clinical procedure (we arrange qualified nurses for these)
- Cooking or housework for the whole family
- Washing the family’s clothes or cleaning the full house
- Heavy massage or physiotherapy (we arrange certified physiotherapists)
- Administering medication beyond reminders without nurse oversight
- Driving or errands outside the agreed care plan
Simple to start
How to book care at home.
- Step 1
Tell us what you need
Call +91-7619629005 or send the form, share the condition, daily routine and your locality.
- Step 2
Get matched within hours
We shortlist verified caregivers suited to the condition, language and shift you need.
- Step 3
Care starts at home
The caregiver is briefed and begins, with quick replacement support if the fit isn’t right.
The line, in plain words
EzyHelpers places non-clinical caregivers. Across every special needs placement, the caregiver does not administer medication of any kind, including tablets, syrups, injections, anything through a feeding tube and emergency seizure medication such as rectal or buccal midazolam. The caregiver does not perform therapy. They carry over exercises a qualified therapist has written down, at the stated frequency, and they do not add, drop or redesign them. The caregiver does not manage a seizure medically, does not suction, does not tube-feed and does not carry out any clinical procedure. The caregiver does not diagnose or assess your child, and does not stand in for a paediatrician, neurologist, physiotherapist, occupational therapist, speech therapist, special educator or behaviour analyst.
They do work alongside the doctors and therapists your child already sees. That is the point of the role. The caregiver reads the written plan, follows it on the days nobody is watching, records what happened and hands that record back at the next review. Where your child needs medication given, tube feeding, suctioning or oxygen, say so at the consultation and we will arrange a nurse, either in place of a caregiver or alongside one.
When to wait
Four situations where hiring a caregiver is the wrong next step.
We would rather lose the enquiry than take money for a placement that will not help. If any of these describe your household, book the appointment first and call us afterwards.
There is no diagnosis and no assessment booked
A caregiver cannot tell you what is going on. See a developmental paediatrician first. If your child is under three and you are worried about speech, walking or eye contact, that appointment is the one that changes things.
Nobody has written a therapy programme yet
Carry-over is most of the job. With nothing written down the caregiver is guessing, and a well-meaning guess repeated daily for six months can undo real work. Get the plan on paper, then hire.
The money would do more in therapy this year
For a young child in the early intervention window, weekly therapy usually buys more than a full-time pair of hands. We will say so at the consultation. It costs us the placement and it is still the right answer.
The behaviour is beyond what one adult can hold safely
Serious self-injury, or aggression that has already hurt someone in the house, needs a clinical team involved before another adult walks in. We would rather decline than place someone into a situation they cannot manage.
Related help
Where else to look from here.
Where movement is the immediate problem, start with paediatric physiotherapy, because a caregiver needs a written programme before there is anything to carry over. How these caregivers are recruited, briefed and replaced is set out on the special needs caregiver page. Where a child has a mild delay and mainly needs a steady, patient adult through the afternoon, a nanny or babysitter costs less, and we will say so if that is what your enquiry describes. The care enquiry form is the fastest route to a consultation.
Frequently asked
Special needs child care, answered.
Describe one ordinary weekday.
We will tell you what it needs.
Waking to bedtime, including the part you dread. If a caregiver is the wrong answer, or if one person cannot safely cover it, you will hear that at the consultation rather than after you have paid.