Children with multiple and severe disabilities are often underestimated. Unable to express their feelings, needs and desires, in many cases they are considered beyond hope of rehabilitation and development. ADI’s experience proves otherwise. Fuelled by a belief that every individual has hopes, strengths, and abilities, ADI (formerly known as ALEH) has shown time and again that intensive therapies and paramedical treatments can change lives.

Today, over 490 children, youth and adults with complex disabilities receive high-level medical and rehabilitative care at ADI’s residential and vocational centres. In ADI Jerusalem, ADI Negev- Nahalat Eran Rehabilitation Village and ADI Ofakim Vo-cational Centre, a devoted, multidisciplinary team of therapists, doctors, nurses and caregivers, educational and administrative workers and a cadre of volunteers work together to provide for the residents’ physical, medical, social and emotional needs. Furthermore, ADI is building Israel’s first neuro-orthopedic rehabilitation hospital in the Negev to help individuals from the entire region recover from illness or accident and reintegrate into life, family and community.