Neurodevelopmental Framework for Learning

The neurodevelopmental framework for learning is an organizing structure for understanding learners and learning, developed by the All Kinds of Minds Institute in collaboration with Dr. Mel Levine and the University of North Carolina's Clinical Center for the Study of Development and Learning. It draws on intelligence theories and neuropsychology, resembling other neuropsychological frameworks such as Alexander Luria's cultural-historical psychology, while also drawing on speech-language pathology, occupational therapy and physical therapy. Rather than using a general intelligence factor, labels, diagnoses or broad ability levels, it describes learners through profiles of strengths and weaknesses across eight constructs, sometimes called systems, and was built to connect with academic skills such as reading and writing and with several major educational policy issues.