Dr. Hilde L. Mosse

Dr. Hilde L. Mosse, studied medicine at the University of Basel. Hilde immigrated to New York in 1938 where she lived and worked until her death in 1982. She spent 30 plus years addressing the issues associated with learning and psychiatric maladies of children. Hilde was well known in both Europe and North America for her clinical and published work on childhood depression, the effects of mass media on children, violent behavior in children and reading disabilities. In 1964, she returned to Germany as a Fulbright Professor in Child Psychiatry at the University of Marburg. She was a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, the American Psychiatry Association, The American Orthopsychiatric Association and the New York Academy of Medicine.

While practicing child psychiatry in Harlem, New York, Hilde co-founded the La Farge Clinic, the first children’s mental health clinic on the East Coast of the United States. Dr. Mosse published numerous articles on childhood behavioral disorders which appeared in American and German journals. Hilde’s most notable publication, The Complete Handbook of Children’s Reading Disorders, describes an interdisciplinary approach to diagnosis, treatment and prevention of reading disorders. In 1980, Dr. Mosse received the Watson Washburn Memorial Award for excellence in education by The Reading Reform Foundation in Houston, Texas for this published work. Dr. Mosse’s commitment to serving the economically disadvantaged and the emotionally troubled without regard to race, color or creed continues through the work of the Northside Center for Child Development in New York City (http://www.northsidecenter.org/v5/pages/support/2013.php).