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By LORI GOODMAN
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JERUSALEM — "To a
new-born baby the world is
a colorful collage of faces,
objects and sounds. In time
the fragmented pieces form
a meaningful picture
shaped by the child's ability
to see, hear and touch.
"In contrast, a blind
child's world remains frag-
mented. Without help he is
unable to understand or
envision what he hears and
feels," says Mrs. Jackie
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Kfar Silver's Wechsler Building, containing mod-
ern classrooms and science laboratories, is shown in
the top photograph; a modern chicken coop in the
school's agricultural program is shown at the bottom.
The Zionist Organization
of America's local, national
and overseas programs will
be the beneficiary of the
Oct. 25 Balfour Concert, ac-
cording to Irving Laker, De-
troit District president.
These programs include
public information cam-
paigns about Israel-U.S. re-
lations, Arab propaganda,
Middle East oil and interna-
tional terrorism.
The ZOA's 520-acre Kfar
Silver campus near Ashke-
lon, Israel is also a benefici-
ary. Kfar Silver has both an
American high school pro-
gram and Israeli technical
and agricultural programs.
Comedienne Marilyn
Michaels and Russian
Jewish pianist Sergei
Edelmann will be featured
performers at the concert,
7:30 p.m. Oct. 25 at Ford
Auditorium. The concert
will also feature the music
of the Mack Pitt Orchestra.
For ticket information,
call the ZOA — Detroit Dis-
trict, 569-1515.
Blood Service
on MDA Agenda
TEL AVIV — The Israeli
government has formally
leased a site to Magen
David Adorn. Israel's Red
Cross Society, for the new
MDA national blood service
center, in Kiryat Ono.
The new,MDA national
blood service center, which
is being constructed at the
request of the Israeli gov-
ernment, will cost an esti-
mated $10 million. Financ-
ing the major undertaking
will be a joint venture of
American Red Magen
David for Israel (ARMDI),
sole U.S. support arm of
MDA, and Friends of MDA
in Great Britain and South
Africa.
Cohen to Entertain at Tam
Israel Bond Dinner-Dance
Entertainer Emil Cohen the country as well as on
will be guest artist at the numerous television and
Tam-O-Shanter Country radio programs.
Club Dinner-Dance on be-
half of Israel Bonds. The
annual dinner will be held
at the club on Oct. 17 at 8
p.m. with cocktails at 7 p.m.
Guest of honor at this
year's event will be club
member Robert L. Willens,
who will receive the Israel
Bonds' 30th Anniversary
Medal, "in recognition of his
support of the Jewish state."
Dinner chairman is Maj.
Gen. (ref-) William J.
Weinstein.
Cohen has entertained in
major night clubs, hotels
and theatres throughout
EMIL COHEN
learn something new and I
can't help but feel grateful."
As his parents look on,
Eldad runs his fingers
through a bowl of rice and
raisins, trying to find the
sweet fruit among the seem-
ingly endless mound of rice.
"A sighted person doesn't
realize how difficult it is to
identify food through the
sense of touch," says Jackie.
"This exercise helps develop
his ability to recognize the
tactile differences.
"One year ago he drank
all his food from a bottle,"
Jackie recalls. Eating solid
food is a social skill that
Two-year-old Eldad plays on the floor with his
children learn from watch-
teacher; Jackie Landau, left, and his mother. The
ing others. But the blind
"games" on the floor help the blind child learn many
child has to be taught.
skills.
• • •
"Eldad had a particularly
progressed."
Landau, one of 30 who hasn't
difficult time. When I put a
On the other hand, Jackie
attended a one-year home
fork near his mouth, he
teacher's course for the has seen other children de-
would scream. Finally, the
blind given by the velop quickly, some even
fear subsided and I was able
American-Israeli Light- exceeding her own expecta-
to work with him. Now he
tions.
•
house Rehabilitation Cen-
eats in the children's house
She talks fondly of Eldad, like any other child on the
ter in Haifa. The course,
a 2-year-old boy, blind from kibutz."
sponsored by the American
birth, who had been a pass-
Jewish Joint Distribution
Toward the end of the les-
we baby at five months, but
son, Eldad decides to go off
Committee (JDC) in affilia-
is now active and develop-
on his own. He inches his
tion with Haifa University,
ing normally.
way through the living
was the first of its kind in
"While other infants his
Israel to give formal train-
room, using the wall as his
age
were
grasping
toys
or
ing to home instructors for
guide.
happily rolling from their
blind children and adults.
"What is that?" his father
backs to their stomachs,
asks, as Eldad bumps into a
"Without special atten-
Eldad was lying motionless
small pile on the floor.
tion the blind child cannot
in his crib," she remembers.
"Books," the boy replies,
develop normally," Jackie
The boy's parents, mem-
before going to correctly
stresses, "But through con-
bers of Kibutz N'tiv
identify
the cabinets, chair
tinuous work, he can even-
HaLamed Hey, had been
and sofa as he comes to
tually learn how to talk,
deeply depressed. They
them.
walk and eat like any other wanted to help their son but
"I will continue to work
child his age."
didn't know where to begin.
with him until he no longer
When Jackie began her ses-
As the child gets older,
needs me," says Jackie.
sions with Eldad, a sight
-home instructors help him
"Even if that means until
therapist from the Ministry
function independently,
his teens."
of Health also started
teaching him to dress, pre-
There are many like
working with him.
pare his own meals and find
Eldad who need the help of
his way outside the home.
trained home instructors,
During the first few ses-
but unfortunately due to a
sions, Jackie used a rattle to
Jackie, who be employed
lack of funds, the course was
familiarize
Eldad
with
ob-
by the Home Teachers Di-
discontinued.
vision of the rehabilitation jects. She shook the toy and
has
who
Jackie,
rubbed
it
over
his
body,
center, works with seven
supplemented her educa-
until he knew both the
children from birth to 8
tion with on-going classes
sound
and
texture.
Next
she
years old who live in
held at the center, is one of
alternately shook the rattle
Jerusalem and the sur-
the few instructors qual-
and placed it in his hand.
rounding area. She meets
ified to teach her pupils how
Eventually,
he
began
to
-
with each child once or
to walk with a cane.
reach for it. Within six
twice a week for one- to
"I'll never be able to say
months
he
was
voluntarily
two-hour sessions. The
I've learned all there is to
grasping it and other ob-
Ministry of Labor and So-
know,"
says Jackie, a
cial Affairs subsidizes 95 jects.
mother of two who had orig-
"Eldad learned how to
percent of the division's ex-
inally studied political sci-
identify objects by touching,
penses, and the rest is
ence at an English univer-
smelling and even licking
covered by local authorities.
sity, "because I learn some-
them to compensate for his
thing new every day. But I
Jackie explained the im- handicap," Jackie said.
Making the child aware of am very fortunate I decided
portance of including the
to enter this field when the
his own body was the next
parents in the learning ses-
training course was offered.
sion, stressing their support important step. Jackie at-
Without it I would have had
as vital to the child's pro- tached bells to Eldad's
of principles
no
wrists and legs, draWing the
gress.
and theories upon which to
every
"The child needs constant boy's attention to his eve
build.
stimulation to pull him out move. Gradually
he de-
"Every blind child de-
coordination.
of his own world and veloped
serves a chance in life and
After many hours of tedious
deserves the best possible
encourage him to explore work he learned to crawl
the world around him. In
teacher. It's a pity the
order for the child to apply and During
eventually
to session
walk. in
course is terminating, sim-
a recent
what he learns from the Eldad's home, the boy
ply because of lack of
teacher, he must be given grabbed his father's arm to
money." _
guidance and understand-
JDC supports and de-
ing from his parents," she lifthimself
up.
velops, in connection with
Do it yourself,"
• his
emphasizes.
local agencies, a wide range
father said repeatedly in
Jackie recalls an incident Hebrew, slowly pulling his of health, educational and
social services for the aged,
where she had taught an arm away. Eldad stood up,
8-year-old partially-blind a little unsteady at first, but the handicapped, the
chronically and mentally
child how to dress herself. "I without help.- The father
ill, and the training of pro-
knew the child had learned gave him a warm hug,
fessional personnel.
the methOd," she said with proud of his son's progress.
JDC's activites are sup-
conviction, "but because her "At times I get so discour-
ported in the main by funds
parents felt they had to do aged, I lose all hope," said
from American Jewish fed-
everything for her, she the youngster's mother.
erations through the United
would do nothing for her- "Just when I feel I can't go
self. Consequently, she on anymore, Eldad will Jewish Appeal.