Family refuses to let challenges end bar mitzvah hopes for son, others
December 10th, 2007
From the Dallas Morning News:
When David Zeig was 6, religious school teachers said his Asperger’s syndrome would prevent him from being able to make his bar mitzvah. Years of tutoring enabled him to reach his goal. Now his family has started a fund to help train religious school teachers to help children with autism, ADHD, dyslexia and other neurological disorders. They’ve raised $17,000 so far.
“I see many parents with a child who has recently got the diagnosis of autism who don’t see Hebrew school as an option for their kids,” says [David's father Louis] Zweig, 43. “It became brutally apparent to me that it was necessary to train our teachers about a host of neurological disorders, and most religious schools don’t have the budget to do that.”
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