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See y 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.