Dean of Students
Henrietta Szold Challenge Center
Director - Rivka Shaul
The Henrietta Szold Challenge Center helps students with learning disabilities realize their potential. Hadassah College's acknowledgment of equal opportunities for all persons and its obligation to provide these opportunities resulted in the establishment of the Center.
The Center offers the following services to:
Students with physical or medical challenges
Students will be eligible for such status* if they produce the following:
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Medical documents from a specialist in the field (i.e., orthopedic problems demand documents from an orthopedist). |
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Updated documents, excluding documentation pertaining to chronic problems (these do not necessitate a recent document, as long as the existing document states that the problem is stable, chronic, and static). |
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A letter stating effects of the illness or challenge on the students' studies.
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Documents should be handed in as early as possible, and by the first month of the first semester at the latest.
* ex: visual or audio impairments, motor disabilities, or neurological disorders
Students with learning disabilities
Students will be eligible for such status if they produce the following:
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Diagnosis by a recognized party (diagnostician for learning disabilities, educational psychologist specializing in learning disabilities), as having a disability. |
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. Diagnosis must include IQ testing, language testing (reading comprehension, reading pace, written expression, summarization of scientific materials, writing abilities, verbal expression), mathematical capabilities, learning ability & strategy diagnosis, and coping capabilities. If necessary, specific skills will be tested (information processing pace, short term memory, long term memory, phonological abilities, orthographic abilities). |
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Test results must include tests performed and results, normal scores (upon which results are based), raw results, diagnosis, and suggestions for future treatment as implied by results. |
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Testing must be carried out in the students' mother tongue, taking into consideration the age at which they arrived in Israel. |
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Testing must have taken place no earlier than 7 years before submittal of results, or 10th grade. Earlier test results will not be accepted. |
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Should test results include recommendations for corrective treatment, follow-up diagnosis by the same specialist will be required after implementation of recommendations.
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Documents should be handed in as early as possible, and by the first month of the first semester at the latest.
Students for whom Hebrew is not their mother tongue
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New immigrants
Students will be eligible for new immigrant status under the following circumstances:
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They have been in Israel for up to three years (for
academic departments) |
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They have been in Israel for up to five years (for technological
departments) |
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They must produce two copies of a Teudat Oleh |
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Other students with language barriers
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| Documents should be handed in as early as possible, and by
the first month of the first semester at the latest. |
Center's Services
The Henrietta Szold Challenge Center offers support and individual attention to these students. Service offered by the Hadassah College staff is holistic, relating to all aspects of their challenges.
This is expressed by the variety of treatments offered:
Counseling for Applicants with special needs before acceptance to the College
As part of services offered by the Center individual counseling is offered where applicants can become more familiar with the services offered at the College.
Educational support
Study skills workshops
The Center offers professionally led workshops focusing on students' needs in the following areas:
- Learning strategies for academic environments
- Summarization skills
- Preparation for exams
- Term paper preparation
- Preparation of presentations (oral & written)
- Time & resource management skills
- Memory improvement
- Use of communication systems as information resources
- Tutorials
Personal counseling
Adjustment of study programs according to students' needs
As a rule, studies at Hadassah College are full time. In certain cases, students will be able to extend their studies out over a longer period of time, such as students with special needs. In certain cases part time studies may be contingent upon administrative decisions.
In any event, the decision regarding extending the study program is dependent upon a committee decision. Should the decision allow students to extend their studies, a program will be designed, taking into considerations the Center's recommendations, their diagnosis, and their department's professional considerations.
Adjustments on exams
Students with the following difficulties will be able eligible for personal assistance on exams:
- physical or medical restrictions
- learning disabilities
- new immigrants
Assistance offered will be dependent on documentation and personal circumstances. Students receiving assistance must notify faculty members ahead of time.
Assistance available includes:
- extended time
- exemption from proper spelling
- exam taking on laptop computers (provided by the school)
- rewriting of answers
- special consideration with regards to grammar
- use of calculators
- reading aloud of questions & answers
- exemption from numerical errors
- on multiple-choice exams, students may check off answers on the exam, and not on the provided form
- use of approved sheets with formulae*
- personal open-book exams*
- oral examinations*
- quiet room
- enlarged font examination forms
- computerized Braille exams or exams with dictation software
- computerized exams with enlargement software
* in special cases
Tutorials
Emotional support
This service is aimed at raising awareness and helping students cope.
- Personal psychological therapy sessions
- Support groups
Technical support
- Lecture summaries
- Interactive support technologies
Para-medical support
- Vision therapy
The Henrietta Szold Challenge Center is located on the first floor of the Esther Gottesman Center for Technology
Hours
Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 8:00 - 13:00
Tel:
02-6291314
02-6291315
E-mail: anna@hadassah.ac.il
Mailing Address:
The Henrietta Szold Challenge Center
Hadassah College
POB 1114
Jerusalem 91010
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