Maimonides Institute Pioneers Education for Mentally Retarded Based on Religious Approch
A relatively young school, found- retarded and emotionally disturbed cational and therapeutic process. I er's guides, childrens workbooks residential school, a child evalu-
ed by two rabbis and an educator, children.
This method completely revises the , and general aid in the religious ation center, a research center,.
is pioneering a new approach to Rabbi Isaac Maizes, Rabbi Na- standard concept of religious edu- ' education of the retarded is pro- an occupational training center, a
half-way house, a reference library.
the problem of educating mentally hum Shulman and Hershel M. Stis- cation — the separration of spiritu- vided.
Future pla ns call for a national and a summer camp.
kin founded Maimonides Institute al training and academic educe-
as a nation-wide, non-profit agency tion.
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specializing in the problems of the
The school's success • with its
mentally handicapped. The six-1
interwoven program has drawn
year-old institute is based in the
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Other faiths — such as Lutheran
and Catholic, which have been
leading the way in the care of the
retarded — also have inquired
about how the pi- ogram can be
applied to their need.
The "need" of Jewish families
with mentally retarded children is
what led to the founding of Mai-
monides Institute six years ago.
Rabbi Maizes, then principal of a
Hebrew school, discovered while
trying to help a parent that Jew-
ish efforts in the field of mental
retardation "were years behind the
work being done by other faiths,"
he said.
"The Jewish retarded child was
being denied the chance to know
about his heritage and his cul-
ture and to be proud of it because
there were no programs especially
fitted to his needs," the rabbi said.
In 1959, MI's school opened in
Rabbi Shulman's school building
with 16 students. Shortly there-
after, the interwoven learning ap-
proach to the educational process
was introduced. It evolved out of
the problem of hom to stimulate
and motivate the children's desire
to learn.
There was a need, the ad-
ministrators found, to establish
a rapport to gain the child's
trust and to forge a link to hold
the child's attention. As a first
step the child is taught that
there is always someone he
could turn to, someone who loves
him, someone who would always
listen — God.
Within a year after the program
was instituted, its success became
apparent. said Rabbi Maizes.
The school's home is an 11-acre,
tree-lined campus on Jamaica Bay.
The campus, 'once the luxurious
estate of a Philadelphia banker,
contains two swimming pools, a
miniature ocean beach club, and
sports courts and playgroundS.
Towering over all this is an im-
posing tudor-style building.
The campus, recently acquired by
MI as part of a $5.000,000 expan-
sion and development program,
serves a dual educational role. Its
tranquility and privacy affords the
children a place to develop in an
atmosphere created just for them.
On the campus; and in the day
school, they can learn the first
steps of self-reliance and sociability
under the guidance of their teach-
ers and the company of "their
friends.
Presently the school provides
nursery. day and pre-yocational
programs, and sponsors 'a nation-
wide network of community re-
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