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Is this the
year you promised
yourself you would finally
learn Hebrew?
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The Midrasha Center
for Adult Jewish Learning
Cordially invites you to its
OPEN HOUSE
FOR FALL ADULT HEBREW CLASSES
Monday, August 29 • 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Meet our teachers and see which class is best for you. We offer day and night classes in
Hebrew reading, conversation, and literature, on many levels, from beginner to advanced.
Come to our Open House and find out more!
21550 West 12 Mile Road in Southfield • 354-1050
•Midrasha Center for Adult Jewish Learning •
a division of the Agency for Jewish Education
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SPEECH & LANGUAGE DISORDERS
EARLY INTERVENTION DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Look for these signs or symptoms
✓ lack of cooing/babbling as an infant,
few word attempts by 18 months
✓ lack of two-word combinations by at
least 21/2 years
✓ echoing back words without
comprehension
✓ difficulty with social language or
relationships
✓ doesn't pay attention to spoken
language (may appear to have
hearing loss) but highly visually-
oriented (high interest in TV,
videos, letters, numbers)
✓ difficulty with grammatical skills
by age 3
✓ unintelligible speech
Cal/ us at 737-3430 forfurther information and to schedule a consultation..
: Kaufman Children's Center for
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5793 W. Maple, Ste. 150 • West Bloomfield
• 810-737-3430
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Specialists in developmental apraxia and aphasia.
Nancy Kaufman, Director
marks from reviewers, specifi-
c,ally for a research tool called
Virtual Workspace, which al-
lows a student to interrupt his
reading and "mark" a passage
which can then be later re-
called, It is a tool which must
be mastered, but can prove
valuable.
World Book
The World Book's New Il-
lustrated Information Finder,
described in product literature
as an "interactive visual
CD-ROM encyclopedia for Mac-
intosh and Windows.'Infor-
mation Finder by World Book
is priced at $389, if bought
alone, $99 if purchased with
printed set. For a $49 fee, you
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"But I keep running
customers," Moret says, "who
tell me how much their kids
are using the (printed) vol-
umes, that they find them
around the house, next to a
bed, even in the bathroom!"
This is the kind of portability
-- and tangible, hands-on fa-
miliarity — obviated by a com-
puter disk version, "We don't
want people to think the book
sets are obsolete. Don't take
away kids' love of books!"
Moret exclaims.