Puppet Theater
How do you get a blind or visually impaired child to “see” or “visualize” a bird flying? So many things in the world are clear to us because we see them and take them for granted. Try explaining, without using visual aids, what we see on a day-to-day basis, such as the sky, birds, falling […]
Support Projects
Projects funded through donations: Preservation and restoration of vision function Treatment of adapted environments and darkrooms Ready for Braille Art therapy Puppet Theater hydrotherapy Therapeutic riding Shiazzo, Yoga and Massage Music therapy Rhythmics Animal care Parents and Babies Program Alumni Camp Family Vacation Evaluation and training program Activities of The Challenges Association To donate for […]
Ready for Braille
[:il]A child with normal vision meets letters and writes many times in everyday life, long before he learns to read and write, and the environment encourages his curiosity: "What does it say?" . On the other hand, a child with blindness/ with visual impairment does not receive this information. For the child with blindness, an […]
Cycling
Using the Bicycle for Treating Handicapped Children Bicycle riding has both health and social advantages for most people. It constitutes a physical aerobic activity that engages large muscle groups using something that is readily available from childhood up through old age. Bicycling can be practiced outdoors, and indoors on an exercise bicycle. Bicycle riding has […]
Parents of adults
Family Vacation Summer camps
Guide Dogs
A central goal in ELIYA is to enable blind and visually impaired children to be independent and secure. Learning how to use guide dogs in order to increase mobility is important for blind children for a variety of reasons – learning to give as well as to receive and to enjoy the unlimited and therapeutic […]
Spouses meetings
The ELIYA kindergarten opens its gates not only to the blind children but to their entire family as well. One of the activities dedicated to the families is sibling meetings, where brothers and sisters are invited to spend an entire day at the kindergarten. These gatherings have a few purposes – bringing the siblings closer […]
Occupational therapy
Occupational therapy is a profession that assists children with physical, developmental, or behavioral disabilities, to acquire the higher ability for carrying out significant daily activities. Occupational therapy’s goal is to help the child to function independently as much as possible in three main fields that fill most of the child’s time: Self-care- including daily activities […]
Art therapy
The child’s natural language plays and arts & crafts, his images language, and his imaginary world are reach and active. At the stage when the child is having difficulties verbally express his feelings; the “products” speak on his behalf. The creation of materials promotes the emotional process. The Child experiences and processes in his own […]
Animal-Assisted Treatment
Animals are an inseparable part of our lives. Whether one loves them or fears them, helps them, or hurts them, children cannot feel indifferent to them. The contact with animals enables easy and intuitive communication that relies on emotions, body language, voice, and physical contact – communication that does not need the mediation of words […]
