Our School

About Us

Empowering Every Ability. Enriching Every Journey.

Skills and Ability School is a dedicated institution established to educate and support neurodivergent children, adolescents, and young adults. Through structured educational pathways, individualised therapeutic interventions, and holistic life-skill programs, we nurture every student’s ability to learn, grow, and thrive with dignity and confidence.

Skills and Ability School has become more than just a school, with decades of experience and compassion. We bring together skilled educators, therapists, volunteers, and families to co-create a support system that is empowering and child-centred.

Empowering every learner with care, skill, and dignity to lead meaningful, independent lives.

Vision

To integrate through education the special population into mainstream society by eradicating the stigma attached to them and continuously provide them with the best related services in every possible way

Mission

  • Expanding the reach to the special population
  • Offering a unique combination of services most suitable to individual needs to the extent possible
  • Commitment by all to the core values of the Organization
  • Quality Policy

    Skills and Ability School willingly accepts the challenge of helping the special children with developmental disabilities to gain their rightful place in society. At Skills and Ability School, the emphasis is on education in the best interests of the special children for overall development. It has been a constant endeavour of Skills and Ability School to provide the best and latest techniques of education to special children.

    This Quality Policy shall be realized through the following:

    Establish, maintain and continually improve Quality Management Systems.

    Provide avenues to expand on the knowledge of the teachers by encouraging them to attend and participate in training courses.

    Continually improve the teaching techniques through innovative initiatives.

    Increase the enrolment to optimally utilize the academic / administrative / infrastructural resources.

    Provide quality facilities and infrastructure for the students.

    Maintain social values and obligation as an ethical NGO.

    We Aim To

    Deliver age-appropriate, need-specific education and therapy.

    Build life and vocational skills that ensure independence.

    Partner with families to support emotional and behavioral growth.

    Increase social awareness about intellectual and developmental challenges.

    Drive innovation in interventions keeping in pace with the latest methodologies and techniques.

    Board of Trustees

    Core Leadership Team

    Skills And Ability School  is governed by a dedicated Board of Trustees. Trustees serve voluntarily, bringing with them decades of expertise and commitment to the cause.

    Mr. T. N. V. Ayyar

    Chairman & Honorary Managing Trustee
    An independent finance professional and qualified chartered accountant with over thirty eight years domestic and international experience, associated actively with the affairs of Skills And Ability. since 1999..

    Mr. Virendra D. Kelkar

    Vice Chairman, Honorary Treasurer & Secretary
    An Engineer by profession who has been working very closely and with total dedication for over fifteen years with Skills And Ability as an Advisor pertaining to the process of obtaining the ISO 9001: 2015 certifications.

    Mr. D. Sivanandhan, IPS. (Retired)

    Honorary Trustee
    Former Police Commissioner of Mumbai, and Former Director General of Police, Maharashtra. Mr. Sivanandhan is one of India’s most well-known and highly regarded Indian Police Service Officers (IPS).

    Mr. Kiran.S. Deolalkar

    Honorary Trustee
    .A versatile IT professional with over 30 years diversified experience, including participation in major Government transformation Projects, with decades of association with the TATA Group and SAP Information Technology

    Mr. Pashminu Mansukhani

    Honorary Trustee
    An accomplished and multitalented photographer who has received recognition at National level with various awards. Mr. Mansukhani, a resident of Navi Mumbai has been associated with the school in various areas for the past decade.

    Mr. Paresh Parasnis

    Honorary Trustee
    A Chartered Accountant, with over 38 years’ experience in Industry and Philanthropy. Former, Executive Director and Chief Operations Officer of HDFC Life Insurance Company Limited. Former CEO of Piramal Foundation and presently on Board of Companies and mentoring Social Entrepreneurs.

    Ms. Sonal Desai

    Honorary Trustee
    A Chartered Accountant, with over 33 years’ experience, former Executive Director, Hindustan Petroleum & Head of CSR, presently CEO of Sushrut Hospital

    Mr.Swapnil Chaudhari

    Honorary Trustee
    An IT professional specializing in leading Management and Information Systems Management audit processes.

    Ms.Nancy Kothari

    Honorary Trustee
    A qualified Chartered Accountant and partner with Sampat & Mehta Chartered accountants.

    Dr.Amit Vatkar

    Honorary Trustee
    A pediatric neurologist, child development specialist and consultant at various hospitals.

    Dr.Ashish Agrawal

    Honorary Trustee
    A qualified trained physiotherapist with extensive experience
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    Key Milestones & Achievements
    • Empowered hundreds of children and families through education and support
    • Pioneer in offering National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) training to students
    • Over 15 years of consistent success in NIOS Pratham, Std. X, and Std. XII levels
    • More than 35 students have successfully cleared NIOS Std. X and XII
    • Alumni now employed in retail (D-Mart, Reliance Smart), hospitality, and education/training sectors
    • Active collaborations with health professionals and experts in the field of special needs
    Legacy of Care
    Roots of Change
    Why Us

    Dedicated to Ability, Not Disability

    Integrated Services

    Education, therapy, vocational training, and creative arts all under one roof — designed around each student’s unique needs.

    Family and Volunteer Involvement

    Parents and volunteers are active stakeholders in each child’s growth journey — ensuring trust, continuity, and collective care.

    Focus on Dignity & Inclusion

    We work not just for children’s learning — but for their confidence, social participation, and long-term independence.

    Transforming rejection into resilience and resilience into results.