Success StoryPublic Speaking



Public Speaking

Author: Kevin Lindsay

Planning Unit: Fayette County CES

Major Program: 4-H Communications and Expressive Arts Core Curriculum

Plan of Work: Leadership Development

Outcome: Intermediate Outcome

Public Speaking skills are valuable communication tools that youth need to fully succeed in their school and career path. 4-H offers various ways to teach public speaking and other communication lessons. A parent of a youth who has down sydrome has raved about how much confidence public speaking has given her son as a result of him doing a demonstration. The mentioned youth participated in the March 2020 county demonstration contest and won first place in his division. He then competed at the district level via Zoom and won first place there as well. His demonstration is now participating at the State Communications contest in July.  From conversations with the youth's parent, you can see the pride she has in her son in not only competing, but doing well in communications contests. Her son also joined Fayette County 4H at camp last summer and was planning to attend again this past summer before camps were cancelled. The mom said that 4H gives her son the opportunity to just be a normal kid growing up and a chance for her to not have to worry about her son being treated differently because he has down syndrome.







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