The Cutting Edge: Implants, Auditory Neuropathy, Literacy, Visual Phonics and Cued Speech,

Attn:  Hearing Loss Professionals, Students and Families of Children with Hearing Loss.

You'll learn how to transform the lives of children with hearing loss through this unique seminar, attracting highly acclaimed experts from around the country and Belgium.

"The Cutting Edge" seminar recognizes the significance of Cued Speech in language and literacy through any
communication mode with deaf or hard-of-hearing children.  Save the dates - January 27th-29th, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. at the Hilton Chicago, 720 S. Michigan Avenue in Chicago. 

New research will demonstrate how Cued Speech (CS) can be integrated with the latest in technology and teaching techniques to accelerate and improve language development and speech perception.  CS will be presented as a tool that easily works with any program for educating deaf children, including Total Communication, Listening and Spoken Language or ASL/English Bilingual.

Both professionals and families are invited to this
informative, interactive seminar.  An open house is offered at A.G. Bell Montessori School in Wheeling on January 27^th, where attendees can learn to cue. 

Cued Speech is a proven communication system using visual information from speech-reading, combined with hand shapes and positions around the mouth to unambiguously represent all phonemes of spoken language.

Seminar topics range from insights on Auditory Neuropathy from the nation’s leading expert, Dr. Charles Berlin to an exploration of research supporting the use of Cued Speech with cochlear implantees, from
Jacqueline Leybaert, co-author of the 2010 book, Cued Speech and Cued Luanguage of Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Children.

The seminar is being produced by AEHI (Alternatives in
Education For The Hearing Impaired) and A.G. Bell Montessori School (AGBMS), with support from the Ronald and Mary Ann Lachman Foundation.  To learn more or register, visit www.agbms.org or call:  847-850-5490.

Thank you!