International Center for the Enhancement of Learning Potential

The International Center for the Enhancement of Learning Potential (ICELP) was the centre in Jerusalem through which the Israeli psychologist Reuven Feuerstein carried out and taught his work. He founded it in the Rehavia neighbourhood, and Encyclopedia.com dates his Jerusalem research institute to 1965. Treatment there rested on his theory of structural cognitive modifiability, the idea that a person's ability to learn can be changed by mediation, and it served children and adults with learning difficulties, including children with Down syndrome. Teachers came from many countries to study his methods at the centre, in recent years more than 700 a year according to The Psychologist, and French firms and public services consulted it. Feuerstein took no money from families for therapy at ICELP, and his methods later spread to centres in other countries, including one in London that opened in 2001.