Dear Colleagues and Friends,

As this newsletter shows, the programs and applications based on the theories of Structural Cognitive Modifiability and Mediated Learning Experience are extremely diverse. The target populations include children with special-needs, communication or emotional disorders, and the blind -- from infancy, through school, and into adulthood. Our Instrumental Enrichment program effectively improves thinking and learning skills not only among the culturally different and deprived, but also among high-functioning individuals, for example, in the army, various medical professions, and industry. In the brain-injured and the elderly, IE slows down deterioration and may even reverse cognitive damage. ICELP cannot directly respond to all those who ask for our help. Clearly, the key to answering the ever-increasing demand for our programs from all corners of the globe is to train others in our theories and applied systems.

ICELP continues to focus on three main goals:
1. to develop methods, tools and teaching systems.
2. to experiment and carry out research on them.
3. to train others to provide ICELP’s educational and clinical services in their own countries.

Consequently, our current priority is to establish an International Academic Center for Training and Research at our Ein Kerem campus, where new methods will be developed and researched, and people from all over the world will come and learn how to apply our programs. In the Passover season, symbolizing freedom and independence, we appeal to our friends and supporters to help us to realize our dream of providing help to all those in need wherever they may be.

With my best wishes,

Prof. Reuven Feuerstein