Biography
Mahalakshmi holds a master’s degree in sociology and has done several certificate courses in rehabilitation management in areas such as Braille, Independent Living Skills and the Human Eye from the Hadley School for the Blind, Illinois, USA. She has been associated with the Dr PRK Prasad Centre for Rehabilitation for the past 18 years.
She has extensive experience in working with children and people with visual impairment and low vision. Her key areas of work are counseling and guidance, educational rehabilitation, independent living skills training, community-based rehabilitation, early Intervention of children with developmental delay and other disabilities, and low vision rehabilitation.