To effectively reach rehabilitation to children in far away rural areas, where no rehabilitation services are available, SPASTN focuses on a self-help model called 'Community Based Rehabilitation' or CBR. These CBR centres are located at remote rural locations.

This began as a Mobile Rural Extension programme, in which a Mobile Rehabilitation van reaches disabled persons through Government Hospitals and Primary Health Centres (PHCs). This has now developed as a full fledged CBR programme with community participation.

The Team consists of rehabilitation professionals who make regular visits to PHCs and Hospitals and act as a catalyst to develop community run programmes.

SPASTN's CBR teams provide the initial impetus, the benefits of therapies, special education, social interaction, and vocational training, and then support and encourage the parents to run the Rehabilitation Centre on their own, under the monitoring of SPASTN's CBR team.

Some of the programmes have been taken over by the local hospitals, especially the early identification and early intervention programmes with the active support from the staff of SPASTN.

Today, CBR Self Help Groups are functioning effectively, because, united in their crisis, they come forward and create their own solutions.