Openings available in school's golf event

From: Whittier Daily News, CA - May 23, 2003

WHITTIER -- Openings are available for the ninth annual Oralingua School for the Hearing Impaired Golf Tournament fund-raiser on June 2 at La Canada Flintridge Country Club.

Entry fees include golf cart, green fee, lunch and dinner. Corporate sponsorship is $1,000; foursome is $500, individual golfer $150, tee sponsor $150, and cart sponsor $100.

Oralingua School, located at St. Matthias Church for 34 years, utilizes aural/oral philosophy and methodology, teaching deaf children to listen and speak without use of sign language or lip-reading.

Children are fitted with hearing aids or technologically advanced cochlear implant to amplify residual hearing. They receive highly specialized training in speech and listening along with age-appropriate academics in very small classes.

The golf tournament raises funds to support the specialized program at the school.

For more tournament or school information, call (562) 945-8391.

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