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              • Vision device to understand texts and identify objects

                OrCam MyEye enables people who are blind or visually impaired to instantly and discreetly read text from any surface as well as to recognize faces and objects. The device consists of a camera and a microphone mounted on the frame of a pair of eyeglasses and a little box-like base unit, that can be clipped to a belt.
                OrCam, MyEye, Israel

              • Universal training and job services for persons with psychosocial disabilities

                Shekulo Tov provides job-seeking people with psychosocial disabilities with constant and flexible support. Job applicants are offered a number of options, including vocational rehabilitation, skills development, and training programmes. Participants also receive training to measure their professional progress.
                Shekulo Tov Group, vocational rehabilitation training, Israel

              • Mystery Clients with disabilities evaluating the accessibility and usability of services

                Access Israel, a leading NGO, trains training people with different disabilities to act as ‘mystery shoppers’ to covertly assess the level of accessibility and usability of services. Businesses pay for the service to improve their services, and many use it regularly. By 2021 testing teams had completed more than 300 assessments.
                Access Israel, Accessibility Testing and Evaluation by Undercover Clients with Disabilities, Israel

              • Matanel with his supported decision-making supporter, Michael

                Demonstrating supported decision-making to change national guardianship laws

                Bizchut supports people with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities as well as autism to retain control over important life decisions, with the assistance of trained professionals and volunteers. From 2014 to 2018, approximately 2,300 individuals have received training and 50 have received supported decision-making services.
                BIZCHUT - Israel Human Rights Center for People with Disabilities, Israel

              • A man who appears to be blind is walking in a street with a walking stick on one hand and a mobile phone on the other following the instructions of the app.

                Smartphone app that provides audio descriptions of surroundings

                RightHear is a start-up from Israel that uses beacons (small radio transmitters) as orientation aids. Nurtzer:ins receive information directly into their earphones once the app has detected the location. By 2022, RightHear had more than 30,000 customers and covered more than 2,100 locations worldwide.
                Right Hear, RightHear, Israel

              • Seeds of Wellness participants in communal space.

                Supported Housing for Women with Psychosocial Disabilities and Sexual Trauma

                Three or four women with post-traumatic stress disorder due to sexual abuse share an apartment. A female social worker and rehabilitation counselor, both trained in sexual trauma and Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT), visit the apartment daily. The service offers personal meetings, group therapy, and peer support.
                ENOSH - The Israeli Mental Health Association, Seeds of Wellness, Israel

              • A sucessful business model to train service providers in accessibility

                Access Israel has developed a business model for training service providers, which includes educating staff and providing them with know-how and practical skills regarding accessible services and solutions for their organizations. Between 2009 and 2017 more than 35,000 service providers have been trained.
                Access Israel, Israel

              • An accessible playground featuring four multisensory zones

                Adventures Park for All is a 5,000 m² inclusive playground with four multisensory zones. Co-designed with accessibility experts and people with disabilities, it has adaptive swings, tactile guides, audio navigation and wheelchair-accessible treehouses. Publicly funded; hosts 80+ events and ~45,000 visitors/year.
                Ganei Yehoshua Park, Adventures Park for All, Israel

              • A women holding a microphone in an open-air event stands in front of a crowd seated in tables and bleachers in an open space lighted by light posts.

                Social and recreational activities for persons with disabilities and their families

                Since 2005 the Shekulo Tov Group in Israel has offered ‘SAME’ (Skills, Activity, Mediation, Environment), a large-scale and government-funded social and recreational programme for people with disabilities and their families. Activities take place in real life and online, and range from visits to the cinema to skills training.
                Shekulo Tov Group, SAME (Skills Activity Mediation Environment), Israel

              • The photo shows a group of young children engaged in a creative activity, possibly in a classroom setting. They are sitting at a table covered with a protective sheet, working on what appears to be an art project. In the foreground, a child with dark hair is holding up a paper with handprints and symbols, looking directly at the camera. Another child with a pink hair accessory is focused on drawing, and a third child, wearing a Spider-Man shirt, is also coloring. The children are using markers, and a container with additional markers is in the center of the table. The atmosphere is one of concentration and enjoyment, highlighting themes of learning, collaboration, and creativity.

                Training curricula and staff support to make mainstream kindergartens more disability inclusive

                Krembo Wings, Israel: Youth movement supporting persons with disabilities. Developed training for educational teams in kindergartens, promoting inclusive discourse. Curriculum in Hebrew and Arabic expanded from four to twelve kindergartens between 2022 and 2023.
                Krembo Wings, Krembo Kindergarten, Israel