Programs
Family Vacation
The summer vacation brings with it several challenges to families with blind and visually impaired children. Planning a suitable vacation is one of these challenges. ELIYA is well aware of the need for a relaxing and unifying vacation and therefore …
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Physiotherapy
Our need to move is ingrained, just like the need for food and love. Sight is the main element in our motivation to move: a baby raises his head to see his mother’s face, he reaches out to a toy and then he …
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Summer Camps
Many ELIYA graduates, integrated into mainstream education during the year, face a problem when the summer begins: the day-camps providing activities for many children throughout Israel don’t offer a solution suited to the special needs of blind and visually impaired children. That is why …
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Parents and Babies
Background: The program for parents and babies in ELIYA-PETAH TIKVA started many years ago as a response to the need for early intervention among infants under one year old with vision loss and in some cases also with developmental delay. In ELIYA there …
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Improving Vision Function
We are able to improve the vision function of the visually impaired child although we are not able to change the sharpness of his sight. The level of vision function influences the entire functional ability of the visually impaired child …
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Music Therapy
“Music does not represent life: it is life (Charles Abes) Music is an art that enables expression, connection and communication. Music therapy is a methodical process of intervention, based on the use of musical experiences in the framework of the …
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Hydrotherapy
Hydrotherapy treatment is a rehabilitating water therapy. This therapy uses the water’s characteristics such as – floatation, resistance, hydrostatic pressure, streams and heat convection to treat different problems. The water characteristics are used to strengthen the muscle power using resistance, …
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“Etgarim” Association Activity
The “ETGARIM” association’s activities for the children of ELIYA Blind and visually impaired children often suffer from developmental delays due to their disability. These delays lead to low self esteem, a tendency to stay in one place and fear experimenting …
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Evaluation and Guidance
Throughout the years ELIYA has been treating many children with complex development issues and visually impairment. The professional team at ELIYA found that the main cause for visually impairment among the children was brain damage, as opposed to ocular damage. …
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Orientation and Mobility Group
Visually impaired and blind infants suffer from delayed motor development due to the following causes: Lack of interest in the surroundings which they don’t see and are not aware of. Anxiety and fear of investigating the surroundings that they perceive …
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Animal assisted Therapy
Animals are an in separate part of our lives, whether one loves them or fears them, helps them or hurts them, children cannot feel indifferent to them. The contact with animals enables easy and intuitive communication that relies on emotions, …
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Art Therapy
The project rational: The child’s natural language is play and arts & crafts, his images language and his imaginary world are reach and active. At the stage when the child is having difficulties to verbally express his feelings; the “products” …
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Occupational Therapy
Occupational therapy is a profession that assists children with physical, developmental or behavioral disabilities, to acquire higher ability for carrying out significant daily activities. Occupational therapy’s goal is to help the child to function independently as much as possible in …
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Spouses meetings
The ELIYA kindergarten opens its gates not only to the blind children but to their entire family as well. One of the activities dedicated to the families is siblings (brothers and sisters) meetings. The siblings are invited to spend an …
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Bicycle Riding
Using the Bicycle for Treating Handicapped Children Bicycle riding has both health and social advantages for most people. It constitutes a physical aerobic activity that engages large muscle groups using something that is readily available from childhood up through old …
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Preparation for Braille
Braille reading is taught in the First Grade. Much preliminary work is required to prepare the children before they are ready to learn to read Braille. At ELIYA, this preliminary work to acquire the necessary skills begins at a very …
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