Prof. Shunit Reiter

Prof. Shunit Reiter has been professor of Special Education, Faculty of Education at Haifa University since 1976 until her retirement in 2013. She has been a leader, mentor, teacher, author, and researcher both throughout Israel and internationally. She was the initiator and chief editor of the Israeli Journal on Special Education and Inclusion. A teaching model she designed (i.e., the Cycle of Internalized Learning (CIL), in response to a formal request by the departments of curriculum planning and special education of the Israeli Ministry of Education, is the basis for the nationwide curriculum in special education in Israel. CIL has been recently applied in integrated classrooms in regular education as well. She was significant in starting academic courses at the University of Haifa for students with intellectual and development disabilities. Currently, together with Dr. Ran Neuman, she is involved in research and dissemination of knowledge regarding adults with disabilities in the Center for Research which they started in Kfar Tikvah, Tivon, Israel.