Child Developmental Services

Alyn: Pediatric & Adolescent Rehabilitation Center

Alyn is a nonprofit organization treating physically handicapped children and adolescents. Alyn offers services for a broad range of physical disabilities, and is the only facility of its kind in Israel . Alyn includes a staff of medical specialists including physicians, nurses, paramedical services and social workers. It maintains educational staff for day care nursery, kindergarten and a study center; recreation counselors; and a Biomechanical Engineering Laboratory.  Additionally, Alyn offers respite services and safe transportation for children with special needs.

Contact Details
Located on the corner of Olswanger & Shmaryahu Levin Street
P.O.B. 9117, Jerusalem 91091
Fax: 972-2-6433653
Email: alyn@netvision.net.il

Dvora Ben Zvi, Director of In-Service Education
Tel: 972-2-6494387
Michal Bloch, Social Work Department
Tel: 972-2-6494351

www.alyn.org/index.html

Beit Issie Shapiro

Beit Issie Shapiro is an organization that provides a range of services for children with developmental disabilities and their families. These services include special education and paramedical treatment, and innovative new approaches such as hydrotherapy, complementary medicine and multi-sensory treatment. In addition to providing services for children, Beit Issie Shapiro also runs an Emotional Treatment Center, where families are offered the following services: Individual, Couple and Group Counseling; Family Therapy; Play Therapy for Children; Art & Music Therapy; and Psychiatric Consultation.

Contact Details

Issie Shapiro St .

P.O. Box 29 ,

Ra'anana 43100, Israel
Tel: 972-9-770 1222
Fax: 972-9-771 0465
E-mail: bismail@beitissie.org.il.

www.beitissie.org.il

Variety

Variety is an organization that helps children (up to age 18) who suffer from disabilities such as blindness, deafness, Down syndrome, autism and C.P. The services offered by Variety include help with medical needs such as dental and orthodontic work; mouth and jaw surgery; special surgeries; and treatments overseas. Variety also offers occupational therapy, physical therapy, speech therapy, hydrotherapy and movement therapy. They offer help in obtaining special equipment that improves the life of the child and the family, such as wheelchairs, special equipment for the bathroom, etc.

Contact Information:

3 Tvu’ot Ha’aretz St

Shichun Dan, Tel Aviv 69546

Tel: 972-3-6447201, 972-3-6447220

www.variety-israel.org.

http://www.variety-israel.org/english/default.asp

Jerusalem Office:

Rechov Diskin 17

Jerusalem , 96440

Tel: 972-2-5391911

Fax: 972-2-539-1913

Email: var16@variety.org.il

Gan Sulam

Sulam is an acknowledged leader in the treatment of developmental and learning disabilities, PDD/autism, Down syndrome, and other rare and debilitating medical problems. Teachers and therapists employ the latest treatment protocols and modalities such as occupational, speech, physical, art, music, hydro, animal and multi-sensory therapy to close developmental gaps.

Sulam also builds children emotionally and socially through integration activities with "regular" children, afternoon enrichment, learning trips, and lessons in daily-living skills.

30% of the children who complete Sulam's programs are successfully integrated into mainstream educational systems.

There are Sulam programs in several different locations in both the Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh areas.

SULAM’s Rehabilitative Daycare Program caters to babies and toddlers aged four months to 3 years, who suffer from developmental retardation resulting from various syndromes such as Down Syndrome, and neurological impairment due to premature birth and/or other factors.

SULAM’s Observation Kindergarten Program caters to children aged 3-7 with developmental delays, the majority of whom arrive without a clear-cut diagnosis.

SULAM's Communication Classes serve children aged 3-7 with communication disorders such as PDD/autism.

SULAM’s Elementary School, Afikim, caters to girls aged 6-14 with learning disabilities, behavioral difficulties and emotional disorders. 

SULAM’s Afikim High School caters to youths aged 14-16 with various learning disabilities and emotional/behavioral challenges.

Contact Information

Phone:  02-581-2123 Ext. 4

Email:  sulam@actom.co.il

www.sulamisrael.org