Jerusalem - Post Report Question and Answers
What accommodations do schools make for special-needs kids?
There have been several special needs children at JAIS, AISJ, YTA, and WBAIS. - Nov 2022
The Anglican School has had a fairly robust special needs program, if you can get into their school. JAIS has lagged behind, but has now hired the inclusion coordinator for the Anglican School, so we hope that things are improving. They do have a learning support center, which can help with mild special needs and some referrals to OT professionals. There is definitely a push to diagnose needs that the school can provide (at a cost), sometimes without referring to qualified outside professionals. And Israeli culture is a bit conformist, so some parents feel a push to diagnose and treat things that are just kids being normal, if outside cultural norms here. - Oct 2019
Both schools accommodate special needs. - Aug 2018
I think that both the American and the Anglican schools work well with IEPs but there are no accommodations made for students who require any sort of advanced academic placement. If you are coming from a school system with a robust gifted and talented program, then you will be disappointed and will have to consider supplementing through other education resources such as the JHU CTY program. - Dec 2016
None that I am aware of. - May 2015
