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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

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reading and "mark" a passage
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called, It is a tool which must
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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.