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DuBard School celebrates 50-years

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HATTIESBURG, MS (WDAM) -

The DuBard for Language Disorders celebrated their 50th-anniversary Thursday afternoon with an open house.

Guests toured the facility and learned about the school programs and practices.

Using the DuBard Association Method, the school helps children with language or speech disorders and hearing impairments. It's an eleven-month intensive program designed for pre-school and school aged children.

The DuBard Association method is a phonetic multi-sensory teaching-learning strategy that was designed by Mildred McGinnis, a teacher at the Central Institute for the Deaf in St. Louis. It was modified by Doctor DuBard in 1962.

"We have a variety of exhibits around the school with the children's work and the children in their music class," said Maureen Martin, Director, DuBard School. "We want people to learn all the facets of what we do with the children and our developing research program."

Martin says once the students complete the program they are return to their own schools better prepared to handle the academic and social environment."

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