Micha Beer Sheva - Society for Deaf Children

Micha Beer Sheva is a non-profit (registered) volunteer organization. Its chairman, members and board of directors are all volunteers. Since 1964 Micha Beer Sheva has operated a rehabilitation center for preschool children with hearing impairments from birth to three years of age in the Negev (Southern Israel). Micha Beer Sheva provides a service otherwise unavailable in this area. The center offers treatment and educational staff that specialize in rehabilitation of hearing impaired infants and toddlers, providing support geared to the needs of the children and their families. This helps the children develop according to their own individual potential and to develop the basic tools which will enable them to learn communication, language and speech. This in turn will allow them to be integrated into the family, the community and society as a whole. In the past two years, with the dramatic rise in the number of applicants from the Bedouin community, the society has greatly increased its efforts in expanding, developing, and coordinating its services to this community. We work in close cooperation with the Abu Basma Regional council, representing unrecognized villages in the process of achieving state recognition. Micha Beer Sheva's activities have won recognition, and its chairman has been awarded the honorary award for distinguished service to the community by the Municipality of Beer-Sheva. In addition, the director was awarded the Education Award for Excellence.