Education
The NVLD Project’s Educational Initiatives
The Lemle Clinic at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology
The Lemle Clinic at Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology at Yeshiva University is the first clinic of its kind, providing services to individuals with Non-Verbal Learning Disability. The clinic offers a variety of assessment and treatment options for individuals and their families, for whom quality care options are limited.
Assessment and treatment are enhanced by training graduate student clinicians in an NVLD-focused course, in which they are taught and supervised by experts in the field. The clinic’s main goal is to be a center for promoting awareness about NVLD and bringing compassionate and innovative care to those in need.
You must be a resident of New York State to receive therapy or assessment services remotely. For out-of-state patients, you must come to the campus in the Morris Park section of the Bronx in New York City. If you are interested in either assessment or therapy, please email lemleclinic@hushmail.com or call (646) 592-4540.
Past Educational Workshops
Brooklyn Heights Montessori School
The NVLD Project offered a series of workshops at the New York based Brooklyn Heights Montessori School (BHMS). BHMS faculty members were provided information about a range of learning disabilities and how unique learning profiles present a variety of social challenges for children. Dr. Amy Margolis (clinician and researcher) and Amy Levine (educator and administrator at a school for students with learning disabilities) conducted classroom observations and spoke with faculty about the behaviors and interactions they observed. They provided expert insight into what might be causing behavioral issues and offered helpful techniques to best address challenging classroom situations.
Ethical Culture Fieldston School
The NVLD Project offered a series of workshops about best practices for improving the social experiences for middle and high school students at the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, a preparatory school in New York City. Teachers also provided examples of students’ social challenges and created a school self-assessment to determine the social climate and enhance the social experience of all students. The goal of this work was to ensure that all students felt safe and comfortable during their middle and high school years.
Mary McDowell Friends School (MMFS)
The NVLD Project offered staff development workshops at the Mary McDowell Friends School (MMFS), a Quaker school for students with learning disabilities. During these workshops, methods for differentiating instruction for all students based on their neurocognitive profiles were introduced, with a focus on NVLD and how to support the academic and social challenges students face. Dr. Amy Margolis and Amy Levine worked with speech language therapists at the school to provide inservice training for faculty on factors underlying behavioral and academic issues related to NVLD.
School-Based Mental Health and School Based Health Centers at Columbia University Medical Center
Dr. Amy Margolis and Amy Levine presented methods for supporting and remediating social problems in the school environment and for differentiating instruction based on students’ neurocognitive profiles. These workshops were presented to clinical faculty of the School Based Health Centers serving middle and high school students throughout New York City.
In collaboration with Winston Preparatory School, The NVLD Project created an educational toolkit for parents and educators to help them better understand how NVLD can manifest in the classroom.