ABOUT US

General
We're a young couple (on our middle thirties) raising two children - Omer aged 6.6 (born on April 1996) and Ofir aged 10 months (born on December 2001). We celebrated our wedding on 1993, one year after we met, we live in ISRAEL in Tuval in the Galil since September 2001. Before moving to Tuval we lived in Haifa City.

Ruthie
I'm 35 (born on October 1967). I was born in Kishinev (former USSR) and made "aliya" to ISRAEL when I was 9 years old.
I have BA in economics from Haifa University. I served in the IDF in the navy, and during my serve I met Doron - my husband and Omer's father.
After finishing my army service I worked in several banks as a teller, but since I aspired to move on and learned that the banks' system is not the place, I turned to study managing-accountant.
Today I'm a managing-accountant and working Miltenberg Ltd. Which is a firm for institutional kitchens.

Doron
I'm 38 (born in April 1964). I was born in Haifa (ISRAEL) and since then I live in Haifa.
I have MA in statistics from Haifa University. During my MA studies I worked in Haifa University as a teacher assistant and as a computer advisor for statistical softwares.
After finishing my MA, I started to work in the Israel Electric Corporation in the statistics department. Mean while I teach statistics in the Open University.

Omer
As said before, I'm 6.6 years old (born in April 1996). As my parents lived in Haifa (ISRAEL) I was born there, in the Bney-Zion hospital.
When I was around 30 months old I was diagnosed with PDD (Pervasive Developmental Disorder), To make thing simpler, you can call it AUTISM. Among other thing, my speech is not in clear, so from here on I'll let my parents do the talking for me.
Autism is communicating disorder that defects many fields of the daily functioning. Omer was indeed diagnosed in November 1997 when he was 31 months old - today autism (and its forms) can be diagnosed around one year old and less. Shortly after the diagnosis we referred to the Child Development Unit and we got (only) one hour a week, so we asked for more and we moved to Milman Center in Haifa. There we got 6 hours a week, and this increase of treatment was indicated well very quickly.
Next we put Omer in a special kindergarten for PDD in Haifa for a full day (9 hours a day) and we go to Milman Center for another 3 hours. On the past years from the diagnosis we can see a great progress in Omer's functioning, mainly because of the great effort in treatment.
When we moved to the Galil we moved Omer to the kindergarten class in HORSHA school in kibuz Hanita - this is special school for PDD. The HORSHA school moved near Acco last September 2002.
Because of the distance we stopped the treatments in Milman center.
If you want to learn more about our autism story you can go to "our story" page.

Ofir
I was born a few months ago - on December 2001. Me and my parents hope that my development will be normal.....
As for today, Ofir is developing well - he is crawling and standing with help while trying to walk a few steps. Ofir also talks a lot Jibrish and he is looking on Omer in admiration.
On October 2002 Ofir staerted to visit the kindergarten in Tuval.