PENCIL (Psychological Empowerment, Nutritional Care & Integrative Learning) is an endeavor to ensure a complete health of a child and to identify individual needs of children using variety of standardized psychological tests and thus to assign the children for a particular training program. The training sessions will be conducted by psychologists, who have specialized in School Psychology. Psychological problems include attention, concentration, memory, depression, hyper-activity, anxiety, anger, stress, inferiority complex, low self esteem, low self control, attention deficit, stage fright, school refusal, stubbornness, conduct disorder, destructibility etc. Academic problems which are faced in reading writing and arithmetic areas include letter identification, word decoding, oral reading, reading comprehension, handwriting, pencil grip, letter formation, legibility, speed, spacing, spelling, written expression, digit identification, counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, etc
Nutritional problems include altered energy and nutrient need, delayed or stunted linear growth, underweight, overweight or obesity, feeding delays or oral-motor dysfunction, elimination problems, appetite disturbances and unusual food habits.