Malben, the health agency sponsored by the American Joint Distribution Committee, will start this year several new programs for the handicapped, Harold Trobe, Malben’s new general director, disclosed today.
He said that Malben’s present activities would be maintained and that the budget of 18,700,000 pounds ($6,230,000) would remain unchanged. One major new project will be a speech therapy school, the first of its kind in Israel, to be opened later this year at Tel Aviv University. The school will seek to ease the shortage of qualified speech therapists, a shortage which is an obstacle to rehabilitation of stroke victims, children who are hard of hearing, and similar problems.
Another project will be an observation and evaluation center in Beersheba for early treatment and rehabilitation of handicapped children. Malben will continue to maintain more than 3,000 old persons in its homes and to aid some 30,000 handicapped, chronically ill and aged persons outside of its institutions.
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