Chennai-based digital healthcare start-up Rewin Health has launched JADHU, a virtual reality and artificial intelligence platform designed to help differently abled children, teenagers and adults build everyday skills through guided therapy at home.
The platform combines therapeutic exercises and interactive games for people with autism, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, oppositional defiant disorder and other learning disabilities. Rewin Health said JADHU is intended to address the gap between traditional clinic-based care and accessible support that families can use in their homes.
JADHU creates personalised 30-minute sessions after an initial assessment. The sessions are selected from a library of more than 200 games covering areas including cognition, communication, focus, attention and sensory regulation. The company said the activities are designed to help users practise skills in everyday settings rather than limiting therapy to scheduled clinical appointments.
Users can access the platform through the low-cost Jadhu Viewer headset or specialised immersive Meta Quest headsets. The latter are available at partner clinics, hospitals and schools, according to the company. Rewin Health said the platform has been validated with eight medical institutions, special schools and care organisations, although the source report did not provide details of the validation methodology or outcomes.
The platform was launched at an event attended by S Madhumathi, Secretary of the Tamil Nadu Department for the Welfare of Differently Abled Persons. The department’s presence places the launch within the state’s wider public-welfare context, although no government adoption or procurement agreement was announced in the supplied report.
Vijay Karunakaran, founder and chief executive officer of Rewin Health, said many families in Tamil Nadu are required to wait for professional appointments. He cited a company-referenced figure that more than 72 per cent of families with differently abled children are not in structured therapy. Karunakaran said JADHU is intended to provide guided, personalised practice at home while giving therapists objective information about activities completed between appointments.
The company’s model shifts part of therapy delivery from fixed clinical locations to the household. That could be significant for families managing appointment delays, travel requirements or limited access to specialised professionals, but the supplied report does not establish how the platform performs across different income groups, languages, disabilities or levels of digital access.
As part of the launch, Rewin Health announced that it would provide JADHU free of cost to 500 differently abled families across Tamil Nadu. The company has earmarked an investment of ₹3 crore for the initiative. The report did not specify the selection process for families, the duration of access, or how the programme’s results will be assessed.
The immediate next step is the rollout of the free-access initiative for the 500 selected families. Further details on implementation, participating institutions and clinical outcomes were not included in the announcement.
