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Spring Greetings!

Has your "March Madness" slowed down a bit? Perhaps you’ve just moved into later spring "busy times." Whatever the state or pace of your world today, I hope you’ll choose to take a moment to read this information update and accompanying e-newsletter regarding all the recent happenings here at AGS Publishing.

As you may have heard, Pearson Education purchased AGS Publishing in July 2005. As the world’s largest educational publisher, Pearson Education (www.pearsoned.com) is a new kind of parent company for AGS Publishing. Strategically, Pearson saw a fit between their mission to advance integrated learning solutions throughout the world and the legacy and rigor of AGS Publishing in the special education arena-- including speech-language pathology and audiology.

After examining the many different types of products and services we offer, and more importantly, the many different professions and professionals that we serve, we decided the AGS Publishing assessments division would join with Pearson Assessments and Pearson NCS to form a new Minneapolis-based company called Pearson Assessments (www.PearsonAssessments.com). The current Pearson Assessments offers some of the most widely used and researched psychological assessments in the industry (e.g., the MMPI™), along with related scoring solutions. Pearson NCS provides state-of-the-art data capture tools (e.g., scanners and software) and printing services, including those well-used and familiar “bubble sheets.” The unique blending of our combined capabilities means you have a new assessment partner with the breadth and depth of expertise in both products and services to help you with the important decisions you face every day.

In addition, we are now a sister company with Pearson’s Allyn & Bacon and Merrill Education higher education textbook publishers. We also have collaborative opportunities with sister curriculum companies like Scott Foresman and Prentice Hall, in addition to AGS Publishing’s secondary supplemental textbook line in a new company called AGS Globe. With all that the new IDEA 2004 brings, there isn’t a better time to consider all areas of education as an integrated yet complex environment within which to serve. We’re excited to meet those opportunities and challenges with you and for you.

What else is new? Independent of the transition into the Pearson family, our warehouse at Circle Pines, MN is being turned into a new housing development; our inventory has moved to an Indiana location. A clock tower was dedicated by Circle Pines city government and honors the decades of business development that AGS Publishing provided to the city. We’re growing and moving forward, but will be honoring our almost half-century “Circle Pines” legacy for years to come.

What isn’t new? Our values: Quality, Reliability, Service, and Innovation. Your personalized Web site: www.speechandlanguage.com. The huge flow of ideas and opportunities that come to us from within and without to serve you better—keep sending your thoughts and talking with each other on the SLP Forum! Watch for us as you know us—and also for all the new opportunities that the Pearson family brings!

In service,
Tina J Eichstadt, MS CCC-SLP
Product Manager, Speech and Language

P.S. Be sure to update your contact information!

Web:	www.speechandlanguage.com ags.pearsonassessments.com
Phone:	(800) 627-7271
Fax:	(800) 632-9011
Mail:	Pearson Assessments Attn - Ordering Department P.O. Box 1416 Minneapolis, MN 55440