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Multi-Handicapped Blind Youth
Find Hope in Keren - Or Center
By BEN FRANK
JERUSALEM — His
name is Eitan. He is seven
years old. When he was
three, the car in which he
was riding and which was
driven by his father was in-
volved in a tragic accident.
Ettan lost both his eyes
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and the trauma and physi- pettent of the costs, the bal-
ance comes from contribu-
cal injury may have caused
damage to his brain; due to tions of American friends of .,
Keren-qr.
lack of oxygen.
The work of Keren-Or
For three years, he lan-
guished- until he was has caught the attention
brought to the three-story of the world's rehabilita-
building at 32 Eliezer tion community, includ-
Halevi St., in Jerusalem, ing the Uni,ted Nations
where Igra is the Israeli
the hojne of Keren-Or.
Today,' he sitewith an representatiye to the
instructor, takes a slip -of ' World Council for the
Blind of UNESCO.
paper, reads the word in
Now that the concept has
braille and types that
word on a typewriter. He been proved, a new fully-
joins in- the swigs .of a equipped Keren-Or build-
ing is the dream of Igra. But
music class. He exercises
that takes money, about $6
in the gym.
Then there is Galit, pge million.
A new building would
eight. When she was "15-
mean that at least 75 of the -
months old, she swallowed
several hundred Israeli
an object, almost suffocated,
multiple-handicapped blind
and, in the process became
children could be treated.
blind and brain damaged.
The new facility would con-
Today, she relates to her
tain modern equipment, in-
parents, can understand in-
cluding a therapeutic pool,
structions like Eitan and
much needed today because
participates in activities.
the children now have to
The miraculous progress
travel in taxis to Hadassah
of Eitan and Galit was
Hospital and other institu-
achieved by the patience,
tions.
ability, knowledge and de-
Whether it is in the pre-
votion of the staff of the
Keren-Or Center. It is the sent facility or a new one,
there is no doubt that the
only Jewish residential in-
Keren-Or Center will go on
stitution in the world de-
voted exclusively to the care helping handicapped
and rehabilitation of human beings develop their
multiple-handicapped blind physical and mental
capacity.
children.
Teachers at the center
work only with one or
two children at a time.
The institute has a staff
ratio of better than 2:1
and personnel are on
duty 24 hours-a-day.
The Keren-Or Center is
only five-years old. In 1976,
Jacob Igra, an Israeli expert
on the treatment of the
blind, realized that the in-
stitution for normal blind
could not take care of the
multi-handicapped blind'
child and most of those chil-
dren end up in mental in-
stitutions.
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Laboratory
5715 Woodward
Telephone 832-2360
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"Because of the intensive
and concentrated training
program our capacity has
been -limited, but several
hundred multi-
handicapped blind children
are neglected so that even if
they are not retarded now,
they will become so in the
future because there is no
room in Keren-Or for them
to be helped," he says.
The Keren-Or facility
came into being when a
house was rented in the
Kiryat Moshe section of
Jerusalem and renovated.
The school was opened
using funds raised in the
U.S. To this day, the Israeli
government pays only 15
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