Rehabilitation and Therapy

Almanarah (Hebrew lighthouse), Association for promoting people with disabilities in Arab Society (2005) a regret to empower the with disabilities owners of Arab society, to achieve the realization of their natural, social and legal rights, and integrate them into society in an egalitarian manner without any social exclusion, stigmas or prejudice.

Beit Izzy Shapiro is a social change organization that has been operating for 40 years to ensure equal rights, full partnership in community life, and maximum autonomy for people with disabilities.

We work to promote adults and children through providing and developing innovative educational services, broad activities for creating social positions and operating a center for excellence, Research and professional training in the field of with disabilities.

Beit Izzy Shapiro works with all sectors in Israeli society and affects about half a million people annually through an investigative change. In the world we operate in 29 countries through consultation, academic collaborations, training and . In this context, we are proud to take an active part in implementing the International Covenant on the rights of people with disabilities.

The organization’s great influence on the with disabilities world has not remained below the radar: in 2011, Beit Izzy Shapira received the most effective association in Israel, in 2012, as a special consultant for the United States Economic and Social Council, and in 2017 the organization was elected as an Israeli organization that was presented above the main stage at the annual conference, in part by leading innovation in this world.

ILAN is Israel’s largest Association for Children with Disabilities, established in 1952 assisting each yearthousands of children, youth and adults suffering from neuromuscular disorders such as infantile paralysis, cerebral palsy, and muscular dystrophy.

Throughout the country, in the major cities and in the periphery, ILAN has a large integrated network of facilities for the advancement of people of all ages with disabilities.

ILAN provides services in the fields of education, sports, rehabilitation and employment as well social and cultural programs through:

–           38 Branches throughout the country

–           4 Rehabilitative Day Centers

–           3 Residential Hostels

–           2 Sports Centers

–           2 Employment Centers

–           Over 20 institutions throughout the country supporting kindergartens, schools, schools, summer camps, social clubs, Paralympic sports teams, wheelchair dance groups and scholarships for academic education.

The Israeli Multiple Sclerosis Association provides services to all the sick population in Israel, the association’s services are provided in Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, English, the Association for Age/Body/language/needs

An association which constitutes the professional organization of the communication connection. It offers a repository of independent communication, for locating communications, by practice areas, all over the country.

Israel Elwyn (IE) was established in 1984, and today serves more than 5,200 people with disabilities including toddlers, children, teenagers, young people, adults and seniors.

Among our programs: Early Intervention Centers; extended school day program in kindergarten and special education schools; Transitional programs for teenagers and young adults; Support programs for young adults who volunteer in National Service; Training and employment in the competitive job market; Adult Day Centers; Retiree programs; Supported Living Services; Self-Advocacy programs in the community; Cultural and Recreational Programs.

We believe that every person is capable of self-advocacy and standing up for his or her rights thus enabling the individual to take responsibility for his or her own life, to have an impact on the community and to fulfill his or her needs and wants.

Kol is the representative organization of the hearing impaired and deaf people in Israel and has worked nationwide since 1997 to improve the quality of life and well-being of hearing-impaired people over the age of 18 through legislation and advocacy, promoting accessibility, raising awareness of hearing loss, training on auxiliary accessories, and encouraging hearing-impaired people to cope with the limitation. The organization works to empower, equal opportunity and integrate the hearing-impaired in Israel in all areas of life, so that they can exhaust their skills, in every field, according to their hearts’ tendencies.

The following is detailed information about the scope of national activity and the various projects the organization operates:

Audiological Consultations:The audiological consultation is provided by speech therapists of Kol who specialize in auditory rehabilitation that enables you to understand the hearing condition and prepare for auditory rehabilitation. The audiological consultations in Bacall allow each person to better understand the process of hearing rehabilitation.

The national line of information and support: an open line for counseling and supporting issues related to hearing loss, accessories, rights, accessibility, dealing with communication difficulties, the heart of social and emotional difficulties arising from the quality of the limitation and the stigma that society has around hearing loss.

Running ‘Listen to You’ information and training stations: Aloud enterprise operates 6 information and training stations across the country. The stations are staffed by hard-of-hearing coordinators who provide information and support to the audience at public hearing institutes about hearing loss, rights, rehabilitation and help cope better, while demonstrating hearing aids.

Running a nationwide “hearing out loud” course: a unique 7-session course designed for hearing-impaired people who want to get tools to cope with hearing loss and existing technologies, as well as receiving tools for dealing with the personal, social and family framework. The course’s designs include: expanding audiological knowledge, familiarity with hearing loss and rehabilitation methods, and expanding practical knowledge – hearing aids and hearing aids, how to use the professionals, assistance with the Hearing Institute and the speech clinician, hearing training, media strategies, expressing personal and family processes and personal empowerment. In addition, the course participants receive personal and group counseling and guidance from Kol’s professionals. The course is taught by a speech therapist and a hearing-heavy instructor.

Operating a national center for lending FM devices:The center was established to enable anyone with hearing impaired persons to benefit from the use of the technology, in light of the high cost of the systems. The center includes a large variety of systems currently available on the market. The loan is carried out by speech therapists in Bacall and includes personalization, training and guidance to the user.

Activate a display center for hearing accessories in Tel Aviv: an explanation of hearing aids – going through options and experimenting with the accessories from the display. The display includes a variety of accessories that enable personal and experiential experience by all technological means: TV solutions, telephony solutions, personal amplification systems for use at home, work and public places.

Hearing aids for the disadvantaged: In order to improve the quality of life of hearing-impaired people whose hands do not obtain hearing aids, and integrate them into all areas of life according to their heart’s inclination, Kol provides hearing aids by contributing to disadvantaged people.

Advocacy activities, promoting rights, accessibility and legislation: The organization operates in this field in several aspects: participation in Knesset committees and preliminary professional committees; representation of the matter of the hard-of-hearing before authorities and institutions (assistance with individual requests regarding non-accessible places, handling the subject of undercover subtitles and their quality, etc.); training and training on audio accessibility; explaining and managing a database of accessible locations; raising awareness among the public; Holding seminars and trainings (e.g. the Society of Speech Therapists, Accessibility Coordinators at the Academy, etc.).

Promoting the rights of hearing-impaired people: Kol worked to get technologies into the health basket (the adult cochlear implant, increasing hearing aid funding for adults over the age of 18), and promoting legislation to ensure the rights of the hearing impaired.

Hearing training for cochlear implant implants: The voice holds hearing training for people who have undergone cochlear implant surgery who have completed the training quota they deserve in the health basket.

Courses Professional workshops and training: dealing with hearing loss, training on accessories, implant preparation workshops, lectures on various topics (speech comprehension, speech reading, tinnitus and more).

Aloud’s hearing car: The hearing-loss project that began in 2010 is part of an overall program for accessing diverse services to the hearing-impaired public, especially in various population cuts in Israel (new immigrants, the Bedouin diaspora and a low socioeconomic population), in order to raise awareness among the population of the problem and how to deal with it, and to reach a greater number of hearing-impaired people who will turn to rehabilitation services throughout the country. The activity includes a lecture on the causes of hearing loss, hearing aids, accessories, implant surgery, audiogram reading, emotional coping, information about rights, and individual counseling.

The “Hand for Equal Employment” lending database is operated by the Migdal Or Center, which deals with the functional and occupational rehabilitation of people with blindness or visual disabilities, and in voice, a hearing-impaired and deaf organization that deals with hearing rehabilitation and promoting the integration of hearing-impaired and deaf people. The database provides accessible technological equipment to people with disabilities in workplaces throughout the country, and is provided to the employer for free for a period of up to six months. It is designed to serve people with disabilities such as vision, hearing and motor disabilities. Borrowing helps in the process of absorption and integration in the work of people with disabilities in a new workplace, and is intended for companies and businesses that want to retain employees who have had a deterioration in their situation or a change in their job definition. The database is also intended for short training (up to 9 months) and preparation for a job interview. Upon completion of the borrowing period, the option will be given to purchase from the loan pool the equipment borrowed for the employee at a discount. Assistance will be provided in receiving funding requests for those eligible from headquarters to integrate people with disabilities

The organization’s achievements:

• Increasing hearing aid funding in the health basket for ages 18 and up.
• Raising awareness of the issue of hearing heaviness among the general public and professionals.
• Full funding in the cochlear implant health basket that helps hundreds of people re-hear.
• The promotion of the Television Subtitles Act, which states that by 2015 all television programmes will be accompanied, both recorded and live programmes will be accompanied by subtitles for hearing-impaired people.
• Complicity in enacting the Equal Rights Act for people with disabilities, including the Accessibility Chapter.
• Complicity in enacting accessibility regulations.
• The establishment of three exhibition and training centers for hearing-impaired people.
• Accompanying the accessibility of dozens of public institutions for hearing-impaired people.
• Distributing hundreds of hearing aids to the disadvantaged.
• Holding dozens of lectures a year in front of thousands of people about hearing loss.

Dozens of people a year receive professional audiological advice and improve their ability to adapt to hearing aids and hearing aids

“Heart” in giving a package of services under one roof to the Third Age and for people with dementia and Alzheimer’s in the community, all levels of functioning – to them and their families – to help people with a decrease in cognitive function and their loved ones with them, through a variety of personalized services:
Day centers, beat for young people with dementia, heart “in Nursing, Heart” “At Home, Heart” in the protected Diers, “contact” for the Third Age, research and development of services

Milbat is a non-profit public association (registered association), operating across Israel since 1981 to provide disabled people of all ages with a customized technological environment intended to maximize independence.

Milbat is the leading Israeli group in providing rehabilitative and technological knowledge to provide a variety of services intended to improve the quality of life and functionality of the elderly and disabled people of all ages.
Through the use of special accessories and customized technology, we aim to assist disabled people to achieve their goals and independently accomplish everyday activities, both fundamental and mundane:
A stroke survivor with unilateral paresis can make their own meals, a car crash survivor who is confined to a wheelchair can look after their child, a child with CP can activate their tablet, etc.

Misgav – A network of geriatric rehabilitation centers in the community is a national public system developed by JDC-Eshel and the Ministry of Health, designed to enable rehabilitative treatment in the community for elderly people with functional decline as a result of health events, such as stroke, Parkinson’s disease, hip fracture and functional decline due to hospitalization. The centers were built to enable the restoration of the old man’s functioning, promoting his participation in his life environment and community, with an emphasis on providing tools for a healthy and preventing lifestyle.

Today there are six centers operating within welfare and health infrastructures in the communities: Beersheba, Kiryat Gat, Ramat Gan, Ramle, Nof HaGalil and Sheparam.
The service is provided to insurers of all health funds and offers inclusive and intigestive rehabilitation geriatric programs focused on the old person and relate to his physical, emotional and social aspects; combine the caretaker family members; Promotes prevention and a healthy lifestyle, strengthens community vision that promotes community-care continuity, and supports aging at home, in the community (Aging in place).

Treatments are provided by a multi-professional team from the fields of medicine, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech therapists, nutrition, social work, nursing and psychology.
For more information and to join the service , please contact the center directly in the living area,

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The joining of a child with special needs for the family is not simple. Reality meets some parents when they are in shock, but panic, helplessness and uncertainty in relation to the future.

These sensations make it difficult to act out of clarity and focus on the common purpose of the child’s benefit and to save the family cell.

Coping with raising a child with special needs is composed because of the transition to coping with the needs of the universal growth of each child, the family’s coping with medical diagnoses and treatments that are very the family budget,

The problems between doctors and therapists and dealing with bureaucracy and authorities can sometimes be very frustrating and relax.

The feeling that repeats itself among many parents is that we are waging battle for our child’s lives, and sometimes we remain exhausted in the battle against the red tape.

We often said the phrase – “I wish there was someone who would handle it in my place.” We said, and there was no one who would do anything. The Voice of rights was established precisely for this purpose.

We believe that it is our duty to help any parent or family who has a child with special needs to receive their rights and rights that are granted by law.

Each face is personally handled by the people and experts in the field of children’s rights with special needs until the problem is resolved or the difficulty in obtaining the right.

In six years of activity, we were going to 10,000 families to achieve NIS 100 million for their children.

Areas of assistance-social security, housing assistance, discounts on payments, legal support for nursing and medical malpractice, rehabilitation equipment, names, integration, assistants, transportation, therapeutic treatments and more.

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Yad Sarah, established in 1976 by Uri Lupolianski, has built a complementary system of medical care that provides services that state and public institutions do not. In recent years, emphasis has also been placed on developing services for the growing population of senior citizens.

As of today, Yad Sarah assists more than half a million people every year. Roughly 7,000 volunteers serve the Israeli public in the various aid departments and in the 116 Yad Sarah service centers throughout the country. The branches lend close to 8,000 items of medical and rehabilitative equipment for vital home care.

Yad Sarah’s volunteer drivers make more than 100,000 trips every year, transporting people with disabilities in specially equipped YadSaraVans and bringing them literally anywhere they want to go. Yad Sarah’s day rehabilitation programs offer a variety of rehabilitation services to people with disabilities: occupational, physical, art, music, and speech therapies, and more. Yad Riva provides low cost legal aid for seniors.

The Home Hospitalization Service provides a complete set of hospital equipment, providing a comprehensive solution for patients, allowing them to recover at home, supported by family – with fewer complications and less exposure to infections.

The Home and Community Service offers several programs geared to elderly and homebound individuals, including home visits, day trips for people in wheelchairs, documentation of life stories, and more. The mobile dental clinics offer comprehensive dental treatment at home throughout Israel.

The Frenkel Emergency Medical Center provides medical treatment by specialists and other dedicated professionals in the evenings when the health clinics are closed. State of the art equipment, an onsite lending center, and a community pharmacy cater to every need.

Not all services are geared to seniors. The Play Center offers a therapeutic environment for children with special needs and their parents. The Family Center provides professional therapy to family members suffering from distress related to violence or abuse occurring within the family. The Tourist Service allows tourists with functional disabilities to visit Israel, helping them plan their trip, delivering medical equipment and devices to their hotel or apartment, and offering suitable transport in YadSaraVans.

Yad Sarah has been at the forefront of the accessibility revolution, one that promotes mobility and a connection to family, community, and place of employment. Mobility at home. Mobility out in the world. Changing lives for the better by introducing new services tailored to individual needs. Always with the goal of easing the financial burden on families by providing Yad Sarah’s services for free. (There is a nominal refundable deposit when borrowing equipment)