She has worked extensively for children with profound developmental disabilities that engage in severe behavioural problems. Before joining NIE, she pursued her post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine – Kennedy Krieger Institute and worked in the Neuro-Behavioural Inpatient Unit until July 2011. Dr. Dutt also worked as a Behaviour therapist at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Prior to her stint in the United States, she worked as a psychologist at the National Resource Centre for Inclusion in India and as a research assistant in a UNICEF funded project on providing pre-school inclusive education to marginalised children in the urban slums of Mumbai, India.