Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Stay Busy With Summer Tech Skills!


If your son/daughter wants (or needs) to stay busy this summer and/or they love electronics, take a look at The Yellin Center website "Resources List" and then click on "Tech Literacy." 

The Yellin Center has compiled a list of fun websites and courses to explore around the topics of technology, coding, and web site javascript and CSS. Some sites are appropriate for mom / dad to learn along with your son/daughter! If you are already confused by this description, don't worry....your son/daughter who loves electronics knows exactly what we are talking about!

About The Yellin Center
Paul B. Yellin, M.D., FAAP and his team of experienced clinicians help struggling students experience genuine success in school and in life.  The Yellin Center is located in the heart of New York City. Families from five continents, fifteen countries, and from across the United States have worked with our center since its inception.

Before founding The Yellin Center, Dr. Yellin served as National Director of Clinical Programs at All Kinds of Minds, a national nonprofit institute, where he led teams of pediatricians, psychologists, and learning specialists who worked with thousands of students from all over the world at clinics in New York City and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.  These teams applied the work of leading researchers and physicians to better understand how students learn and to offer learning plans based on individual students' strengths and challenges.

In 2007, Dr. Yellin created The Yellin Center to provide these dynamic, interdisciplinary assessments, as well as professional development programs based on emerging science in the study of learning.  The Yellin Center is affiliated with the NYU School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, and is a training site for its Developmental-Behavioral Pediatric Fellowship Program.

In response to the needs of the families seen at The Yellin Center, Dr. Yellin recruited his wife, Susan, an attorney with extensive experience in education law, to assist families in working with schools and obtaining needed services.  Susan Yellin, Esq., co-author of Life After High School: A Guide for Students with Disabilities and Their Families (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010) also provides consultations with students who are coming to the end of their high school years and contemplating additional education or employment.