Childrerl.' Center
for speech, language, sensory-motor, & social connections
We welcome children and adolescents with speech, language, sensory-motor
and social needs to our state-of-the-art facility.
If you recognize these symptoms in your child,
please call us for a consultation. We can help!
• non-verbal at age 2
• difficulty following verbal directions
• repeating back words and phrases
without comprehension
• unintelligible speech
• overly sensitive to touch
• activity level that is unusually
high or low
• difficulty with writing, self-feeding,
self-dressing, use of utensils or other
hand skills
• misinterprets social cues
•feels rejected by peers and
doesn't know why
The Kaufman Children's Center is proud to be a sponsor of the Jewish Federation
of Metropolitan Detroit's Alliance for Jewish Education's Anita Naftaly Family Circle
Event and the Presenting Sponsor of the Day School Conference on November 16th,
featuring:
Dr. Ross Greene, author of "The Explosive Child," presenting
Keys To Resolving Challenging Behavior.
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Children's Opera
Motor City Youth Theatre will pres-
ent the children's opera Brundibar at
Grantland Street Playhouse in Livonia
Oct. 17-19 and 24-26.
Brundibar, originally performed by
the children of the Terezin concentration
camp in Czechoslovakia during World
War II, was composed by Hans Krasa
and written by Adolf Hoffmeister.
The opera is a sweet fairy tale about
two small children who must get milk
for their mother who is ill. The children
have no money and are confronted by
adults who don't offer any help. Three
animals as well as the entire child popu-
lation soon aid the children; all ends
well.
The second half of the evening per-
formance will include short scenes and
monologues relating to the Holocaust
and will be performed by some of the
children. The cast includes talented chil-
dren and adults from the Detroit area.
The production runs Fridays and
Saturdays at 8 p,m. and Sundays at 2
p.m. Tickets are $15 with a discounted
price of $12 for seniors (age 62 and
up) and children (ages 5-15). Children
younger than 5 will not be admitted.
Information: (313) 535-8962 or e-mail
nlflo@aol.com .
Pictured above are, top row, Rachel
Harvey, 12, Gabby Harvey, 10, Katy Bick
of Franklin, 12; middle row, Danielle
Borovsky, 12, Alina Sternberg of Beverly
Hills, 12, Nicki Borovsky, 9; bottom row,
Noah Harvey, 6. The Harveys are from
Farmington Hills and the Borovskys are
from Bloomfield Township. Not shown is
Jenna Silverstein of Novi.
Obama Talks With Rabbis
Washington/JTA — In a conference call
with 900 rabbis, Barack Obama said last
week he supports government funding
for after-school programs in religious
schools.
The Democratic candidate for presi-
dent said he opposes vouchers for pri-
vate schools, but would continue to sup-
port funding, as is currently provided in
the No Child Left Behind Law, for after-
school, tutoring, mentoring and sum-
mer programs at private and religious
schools, according to a news release from
the Orthodox Union and other rabbis
who participated in the call.
Participants said Obama talked about
a number of issues and took four ques-
tions from leaders of the four major
denominations during the more than 40
minutes he spent on the call. The econ-
omy, education, energy, Israel and Iran
were among the topics he discussed.
With the call coming less than two
weeks before Rosh Hashanah, the
Democratic nominee wished the group
shanah tovah. He also discussed how
the shofar "raises people from slumber"
and how he hoped this election could do
the same.
Rabbi Sam Gordon, who introduced
Obama and serves as co-chair of "Rabbis
for Obama," said he believed that a presi-
dential candidate speaking to hundreds
of rabbis was "unprecedented" during
a political campaign and that Obama
showed an impressive "depth of knowl-
edge" — at one point referring to the
largest modern Orthodox high school
in Chicago by name, the Ida Crown
Academy, when discussing faith-based
schools.