979 Dr. Ran Neuman Chapter on page 713 Faculty member and lecturer at the Zefat Academic College - Department of Social Work and Department of Multidisciplinary Studies - Special Education and Psychology. Research Fellow at the University of Haifa. Social worker and member of the management of Kfar Tikva (home and community for adults with disabilities). Director of the Kfar Tikva Knowledge and Research Center, recently established together with Prof. Shunit Reiter. Focuses his research on developing new approaches regarding supports provided to adults with disabilities, based on the humanistic orientation. rann.academy@gmail.com Dr. Bracha Nir Chapter on page 541 Ph.D in Linguistics, 2008; MA in Cognitive Studies of Language and Language Use; BA in Linguistics, Tel Aviv University, Israel. Is a senior lecturer at the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of Haifa, Israel. She is a functionalist linguist working in the framework of socio-cognitive discourse analysis, focusing on form–function relations in language. Her studies explore the role of context in shaping meaning and structure in the different domains of grammar, particularly in language development across the lifespan, in both typical and a-typical populations. bnir@univ.haifa.ac.il Dr. Dalia Nissim Chapter on page 299 Social Worker, Rehabilitation Specialist and Special Education Teacher. Served as Director of Intellectual Developmental Disabilities at the Ministry of Education training center for Special Education and Rehabilitation; National Supervisor of advancement programs and Director of knowledge training and policy at the Ministry of Welfare. Currently is the Pedagogical Director and program developer at the Trump institute at Beit Issie Shapiro. She has published books and articles focusing on developing programs to improve the quality of life of people with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities. dalian@beitissie.org.il
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