ITJA Agencies Aid Retarded Children Cases in Mideast War

NEW YORK — Jewish
Agency-supported programs
of institutional care for dis-
turbed and retarded children
and adults in their home set-
tings assist about 7,000 cases
per month. However, new
cases emerge daily because
of the war.

Two cases directly in-
volved with the war concern
families who lost healthy
sons in the fighting and are
now emotionally incapable
of providing for the needs of
their retarded children. As
a result, the retarded must
be institutionalized.

The institutions are equipped I with multiple social and eco-
for long- and short-term nomic problems, the re-
patients. Sometimes, when a tarded member may require
family has overcome its long-term institutionalization.
A Jerusalem social worker
shock and bereavement, due
to a member lost in the war, said the institutions try to
the retarded or disturbed "develop whatever capacities
member may be able to re- they (the retarded) have for
join the family. In families autonomy and independ-

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Although volume upon vol-
ume is written to prove
slavery is a very good thing,
we never hear of the man
who wishes to take the good
of it by being a slave him-
self.—Abraham Lincoln.

ence." However, she said
that these individuals are not
capable of dealing with an
unusual event such as war,
and when things return to
normal a lot of time and
skill will have to be devoted THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, December 7, 1973-9
to these people.

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