by Karlijn Jacobs-de Hoon | 2015年4月30日 | Special Education, Therapeutic Support
by Karlijn Jacobs-de Hoon, Clinic Director Approximately 15% of children will experience a learning disability of some kind. This means that almost every teacher will encounter such a child at some point in their career. But how to share your initial concerns with the...
by Karlijn Jacobs-de Hoon | 2015年4月15日 | Staff Voices, Therapeutic Support
By Karlijn Jacobs-de Hoon In a few months I will be leaving Shanghai, after having lived and worked in this city for almost six years. When I joined The Essential Learning Group, its first office location in Pudong had just opened, which signaled a new direction for...
by Karlijn Jacobs-de Hoon | 2013年2月1日 | Staff Voices
The Essential Learning Group is an organization with an unusual mixture of staff engaged in a very special undertaking. Every success depends on a spirit of broad collaboration and mutual understanding, and every professional here is both nourished and challenged by...
by Karlijn Jacobs-de Hoon | 2012年11月2日 | Full-Time Programs, Staff Voices
A phenomenon we observe quite often in Shanghai (a lot more frequently here than “back home”) is selective mutism. This is almost always a method of coping with feelings of anxiety. The saddest thing about selective mutism is the other, highly avoidable problems it...