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Guides & Handbooks

  • The Technology Center at Beit Issie Shapiro
    The iPad is an important technological aid for children and their parents.
    This guidebook was written in order to provide basic technical assistance for users new to the iPad. In the booklet you will find instructions for some important iPad settings, allowing efficient and useful interaction with your iPad.

  • The Technology Center at Beit Issie Shapiro
    The page presents a list of key features for application development according to Inclusive design principles.

     

  • Racheli Blum – SLP, Technology Consulting Center, Beit Issie Shapiro
    Beit Issie Shapiro’s Technology Center’s staff manage a professional blog in the field of assistive technology (AT). The blog includes posts on ideas for uses of AT, applications and technologies in the field of education and treatment of people with disabilities.
    This post is about Using AAC in Song.

  • Noa Nitzan – Occupational Therapist, Technology Consulting Center, Beit Issie Shapiro
    Beit Issie Shapiro’s Technology Center’s staff manage a professional blog in the field of assistive technology (AT). The blog includes posts on ideas for uses of AT, applications and technologies in the field of education and treatment of people with disabilities.
    This post is about typing for children and adults, specifically for those that have difficulty with writing.

  • Estelle Slavin – Speech Therapist, Health Professions Coordinator, and Pedagogic Coordinator at the School, Beit Issie Shapiro
    Hani Shahak – School Principal, Beit Issie Shapiro
    Lea Stren – Social Worker, Beit Issie Shapiro
    Toilet training is a significant stage in the educational and social process, a stage that reflects society’s expectations that the child’s behavior will match its requirements. The brochure is a program for toilet training children with disabilities.

  • Edna Karni – Aaron De Lowe Early Intervention Center, Beit Issie Shapiro
    Heli Peretz – Research and Evaluation Unit, Beit Issie Shapiro
    The purpose of this booklet is to present the models of inclusion that exist at the Aaron De Lowe Early Intervention Center, and to give those who are interested the tools for building similar programs.

  • The Technology Center at Beit Issie Shapiro
    Google Campus Tel Aviv
    Beit Issie Shapiro partnered with Google Campus Tel Aviv to train app developers to make their apps accessible for people with disabilities. The guidebook is an outcome of the first Applicable course.

  • Dekel Borovsky – Adapted Physical Activity Instructor, Sports Center, Beit Issie Shapiro
    The booklet describes a project to integrate people with disabilities in the community through physical activity.

  • Lea Stren – Social Worker, Beit Issie Shapiro
    Pninit Leibowitz – Music Therapist, Beit Issie Shapiro
    This publication relates to programs for brothers and sisters of children with developmental disabilities, such as Cerebral Palsy (CP), autism, intellectual disabilities, various syndromes, etc.

  • Shosh Kaminsky – M.S.W., Director of Knowledge Management and Social Change, Beit Issie Shapiro
    Dr. Michele Shapiro – Director of Snoezelen (former), Beit Issie Shapiro
    Children with disabilities and special needs can often only dream about playing in a playground.  Park Chaverim, Israel’s first accessible and inclusive playground, Established by Beit Issie Shapiro in 2005,  gives children with disabilities an equal opportunity for recreation and fun. The playground brings children with different ability levels together to teach them how to play and have fun together while raising community awareness about the importance of inclusion.

     

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