Shira is a bookish 5th grader who had long used reading as her shield against social challenges. During our weekly group sessions, Shira...

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Written By Mordechai Katz With the introduction of vaccines for covid-19, it seems that, hopefully, the world will no longer have to be...

Daniel had never been popular. He didn’t try to fit in with his peers and gravitated towards outsiders. He had always been a strikingly...

Tami, a young mother of two, had always been a worrier and liked to be prepared for worst-case scenarios. She was the sort of person who...

Ido's parents were pretty laid-back, until they got a phone call that stopped them in their tracks.

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Social Cues: Unwritten Social Rules Ever since she was tiny, Sarit had been the sort of girl that other people found it hard to relate...

Wedding Fever Keren was engaged to be married to a boy she’d known almost all her life. When they were old enough to move their childhood...

Social Anxiety It didn’t seem like social anxiety was an issue. Eti had been part of the same group of close friends since she was six....

ASD: Difficult to build a connection and interact with others Autism Spectrum Disorders are a group of developmental disabilities that...

When Tamar was 14, she was waiting for a bus when she witnessed a horrific car crash just ahead. Other people at the bus stop rushed to...

It’s all because of my Aspergers. Itai was preparing for his Bar Mitzvah. He needed to spend time learning his Torah portion, but he...

Chaim’s Journal is based on Chaim’s responses in his sessions with Moshe, his Kav L’Noar school group mentor. October 19th 2018 Hi, Good...

When fear takes over Adele’s mother was very clear on the phone about why she wanted help for her daughter. “I don’t care about her...

Self-Conscious and uncommunicative Binyamin is one of nine brothers and sisters. One day, his father walked into the Kav L’Noar...

What’s the point in even trying to deal..? It was my last meeting with Huvi. As her mentor, I knew that I had helped. We had been meeting...

Socially Awkward: lacking accepted social skills, inability to judge interactions with others  in an acceptable manner. Hillel was a...