Southampton - Author and reality show star Countess LuAnn de Lesseps and producer Patricia Watt will host a special "Friendraiser" cocktail party to introduce the work of The Auditory Oral School of New York to their East End friends at OSO Restaurant at the Southampton Inn, 91 Hill Street, Southampton on Saturday Sept. 12 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Celebrity DJ Izzy Gold will be spinning for the party. Tickets are $50.

For information call 516-312-3330 or pwatt@auditoryoral.org. Dinner after the reception will be offered for $29.95.

The Auditory/Oral School of New York was founded to offer the option of an auditory-oral education to hearing-impaired and deaf children in New York. The school's warm and professional staff is dedicated to meeting the individual educational and developmental needs of each child. The services at AOSNY include parent-infant, early intervention and preschool programs, family training and support groups, counseling, individual speech and listening therapy, audio-logical services, physical, occupational and sensory integration therapy as well as comprehensive multidisciplinary evaluations.

Their specialized quality education using the auditory/oral approach, through an exciting, interactive, cognitive, social curriculum, helps hearing impaired children develop their potential as oral communicators. The children are encouraged to rely on their ability, not their disability.