The Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and the Jewish Child Care Association of New York announced today an affiliation of their facilities to promote an accelerated program of research, treatment and training in the field of mental retardation.
The affiliation, believed to be the first between a medical school and a child care agency, will be applied first to the agency’s Edenwald School, a residential treatment center in the Bronx for mentally retarded, emotionally disturbed children. The initial cooperative effort will involve the college’s department of pediatrics and psychiatry. Subsequently there may be participation by such other college departments as neurology, rehabilitation medicine and genetics.
The Graduate School of Social Work and the Graduate School of Education of Yeshiva University also will be participants. The college and the agency plan to create at the Edenwald School a clinical, research and teaching facility which could not be provided by any of the participating units alone.
Dr. Samuel Belkin, Yeshiva University president, and John L. Freeman, president of the child care agency, said, in announcing the project that a clinical director will be named by the medical college to head the cooperative project.
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