Our History
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. He organized a team of experienced clinicians and administrators and set out to extend the All Kinds of Minds assessment program and update it in keeping with the latest scientific research. In 2026, Jessica Block, Psy.D., was named Director of Neuropsychological Services, formalizing her expanded leadership role alongside Dr. Yellin in guiding the Center’s clinical work and continued development.
Dr. Yellin previously worked with the Senior Associate Dean for Student Affairs of the New York University Grossman School of Medicine, his alma mater, to develop an assessment program for medical students with academic difficulties. He has worked extensively with medical students, resident physicians, and faculty from schools across the nation to improve their performance, meet the expectations of their supervisors, and pass key exams leading to licensure. The Yellin Center has been affiliated with the NYU School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, and has served as a training site for its Developmental-Behavioral Pediatric Fellowship Program.
In response to the needs of families seen at The Yellin Center, Dr. Yellin expanded the Center’s services to include support from Susan Yellin, Esq., an attorney with extensive experience in education law. Mrs. Yellin, the co-author of Life After High School: A Guide for Students with Disabilities and Their Families (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010), also consults with students and families as they plan for postsecondary education and employment.
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. He organized a team of experienced clinicians and administrators and set out to extend the All Kinds of Minds assessment program and update it in keeping with the latest scientific research. In 2026, Jessica Block, Psy.D., was named Director of Neuropsychological Services, formalizing her expanded leadership role alongside Dr. Yellin in guiding the Center’s clinical work and continued development.
Dr. Yellin previously worked with the Senior Associate Dean for Student Affairs of the New York University Grossman School of Medicine, his alma mater, to develop an assessment program for medical students with academic difficulties. He has worked extensively with medical students, resident physicians, and faculty from schools across the nation to improve their performance, meet the expectations of their supervisors, and pass key exams leading to licensure. The Yellin Center has been affiliated with the NYU School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, and has served as a training site for its Developmental-Behavioral Pediatric Fellowship Program.
In response to the needs of families seen at The Yellin Center, Dr. Yellin expanded the Center’s services to include support from Susan Yellin, Esq., an attorney with extensive experience in education law. Mrs. Yellin, the co-author of Life After High School: A Guide for Students with Disabilities and Their Families (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2010), also consults with students and families as they plan for postsecondary education and employment.