Title: The Coupled Channels Optical Method for Positron-Hydrogen Atom Scattering Authors: Kuru Ratnavelu and K Rajagopal Affliations: Institute of Mathematical Sciences University of Malaya 50603 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYSIA Summary: In this work, we report an implementation of the coupled-channels -optical method within the close-coupling formalism for positron-hydrogen that allows both manifolds of the positron- hydrogen and the positronium-proton channels to be incorporated together.The method is applied at intermediate energies 30-200eV.