Our Story

Two educators.
Twenty-five years of experience.
One shared conviction.

Early intervention changes the trajectory of a child's learning life. We have seen what happens when it comes too late. Resource Room exists so it comes early.

The path that led to
early intervention.

1

We started somewhere else

Both of us began as engineers. Both left for the same reason: children. Not a career pivot. A conviction.

2

We each found our way into classrooms

One through Montessori, drawn to the belief that every child carries their own way of learning. The other through Special Education, drawn to the children the system most often misses. For years we designed curricula, built individual plans, and sat with quietly worried parents across a wide range of learning needs.

3

The same pattern kept appearing

Children reaching their teens still struggling with foundations that should have been built at 4, 5, or 6. The gap that could have been closed early had become the story they carried. Resource Room is the practice we wish had existed for those children. It exists now.

What guides everything we do.

Every child is already capable.

The work is not to fix what is missing. It is to find what is already there and build from it.

The earliest years are the most important.

What happens between 3 and 8 shapes everything that comes after. That window deserves the most careful attention.

A different way of learning is not a deficit.

A child who finds reading, writing or numbers harder than expected needs a different approach. Finding that approach changes everything.

Families are part of the work.

A child does not exist only in a session. The parents who know their child best are our most important partners. Always.

The people behind Resource Room.

Thilagavathy Abinesh, Co-Founder of Resource Room

Thilagavathy Abinesh

Co-Founder · Montessori Educator · SLD Specialist
Montessori Primary Montessori Elementary SLD Specialist 15+ years in practice Daily work with children

Thilagavathy trained and practised as a Montessori educator at both Primary and Elementary levels, building a deep understanding of how young children learn and how individualised environments change outcomes for children who need something different from the standard classroom.

In recent years she completed specialist training in Specific Learning Differences, a combination very few educators in this space carry. She currently works with children with learning differences every day, in a specialist school in the mornings and through Resource Room in the evenings.

"What would have been possible for these children if the right support had come at 4 instead of 14?"

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Dhivya Nagarajan

Co-Founder · Special Educator · Inclusion Specialist
Special Education Inclusion Specialist Montessori · CBSE · IB IEP Design B.Ed in progress RCI certification

Dhivya has spent a decade working at the intersection of special education and inclusion, across Montessori, CBSE and IB frameworks, with expertise spanning learning disabilities, autism spectrum, ADHD, and developmental differences. She designs individualised education programmes and works with sensory and behavioural approaches that honour each child's unique pace.

Beyond her professional experience, Dhivya brings the lived experience of being a mother to a child with special needs. She knows what it feels like to wonder if your child is truly being seen — and what it means to find a specialist who does. She doesn't just teach. She walks alongside families.

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