Books
This is the Forward from the soon to be published book by Maly Danino, Executive Director of Nitzan Israel. Here she explains how coaching sessions serve as a model for parents' communication with their children.
Key to the Locked Door is a compelling account of testimonies from college and university students with learning disabilities. They tell their difficult and sometimes painful stories of grade school and discovering their disability.
Chani's Story, or it's previous name The Chanela Method, is the story of a dyslexic teenager who because of late assessment and treatment looked and functioned on the level of a person with mental and social retardation.
An exerpt from the book Learning Disablilities - the Challenge by Dr. Amala Einat, author and lecturer at Tel Hai Academic College. In this passage, Amlah brings the animated and honest testimony of a teacher who taught a learning disabled child from 3rd until 6th grade.
(free translation by Oren Rosenberg)
A fascinating story, by Dana Aviram, flowing and full of humor, that tells about the painful coping of a girl with her learning disability. An emotional drama that awakens sympathy in the heart of the young reader and will pave the way for children who are having trouble learning and have been keeping the difficult secret inside.
(free translation by Oren Rosenberg)
This chapter is taken from the fascinating and important book "The Parent as a Coach" by Mali Danino, Executive Director of Nitzan. This chapter presents us with the real story of parents and children with learning disabilities together with hands-on, practical advice.
(free translation by Oren Rosenberg)
Articles
An article from the Haifa Times newspaper, July 2009, discusses a research study that examined the affects of brain damage on a bi-lingual man. The conclusions of the study help us understand how language is represented in the brain.
An article highlighting the research study of Malka Margalit of Tel Aviv University and Marshall Raskind of Schwab learning.
An article reporting on a research study that shows that undergraduate college students with learning disabilities have higher grade averages than their peers without learning disabilities.
Article by Maly Danino, Executive Director of Nitzan giving explanations and tips to help parents of children with ADHD.
(free translation by Oren Rosenberg)
Taken from an article that appeared in ynet on 10/06/2009. In honor of "Book Week", Rotem Shapiro, a doctoral student at Tel Aviv University and a workshop leader for "Nitzan Baby" gives tips on improving reading time with children
(free translation by Oren Rosenberg)
Two articles describing studies by Professor Malka Margalit, Director of the School of Education at Tel-Aviv University, who has been studying the feeling of loneliness amongst children with learning disabilities for the past 20 years.
(free translation by Oren Rosenberg)
By Maly Danino, Presented at LDA National Conference, 2007
Maly Danino is the Executive Director of Nitzan. Prior to coming to Nitzan, Ms. Danino established the Learning Disabilities Unit in the Israeli Ministry of Education oversees the education of students with learning disabilities in the general education environment.
By Hedda Meadan and Thomas P. Gumpel
Hedda Meaden : Doctoral Candidate, Special Education Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Thomas P. Gumpel : Assistant Professor and Chair, Division of Special Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Article by Ahuva Rosenwasser in the magazine "Day to Day", October 2008.
The article reports on the research study of Dr. Chartin, a child urology specialist, at Shaarei Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem. The orginal research article was published in "The Urology Journal".
(free translation by Oren Rosenberg)
Exerpt from an article by Ofra Elani in the "Haaretz" newspaper, June 2008.
The article reports on a research study done with a nomadic tribe in Kenya. The study found DNA that is linked with hyperactivity with the more healthy members of the tribe.
(free translation by Oren Rosenberg)
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