977 Prof. Shunit Reiter Chapter on page 601 Staff member, Special Education, Faculty of Education, Haifa University (from 1976 to 2013). Known as a teacher, author, and researcher in Israel and internationally. Major contributions: The implementation of the humanistic orientation regarding persons with disabilities; designing a teaching model (i.e., the Cycle of Internalized Learning (CIL); the publication of Issues in Special Education and Inclusion. Lately, she joined Dr. Ran Neuman as an academic advisor to the Center for Knowledge and Research at ‘Kfar Tikvah’. shunitr@edu.haifa.ac.il Prof. Arie Rimmerman Chapter on page 325 A professor emeritus and Richard Crossman Professor of Social Welfare and Social Planning at the University of Haifa. He has published four policy books related to people with disabilities in the last decade: Social Inclusion and People with Disabilities: National and International Perspectives (2013); Family Policy and Disability (2015); and Disability and Community Living Policies (2017) by Cambridge University Press and Aging Veterans with Disabilities: A Cross-National Study of Policies and Challenges published by Routledge. He is the recipient of the Landau Research Award in Social Work (2020). rimmer@research.haifa.ac.il Hila Rimon-Greenspan Chapter on page 99 MA. in Disability Studies, from York University, Canada. Research associate, Disabilities Team at Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute (MJB) in policy and services for people with disabilities. Worked as research and program coordinator of behavioral healthcare ethics program, and as researcher at Bizchut - the Israel Human Rights Center for People with Disabilities. Published articles in disability studies and coedited a book on ethical behavioral healthcare. Since 2007, serves as co-founder and coordinator of the Israeli Disability Studies Network (IDSN). hilarg@gmail.com
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