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**BIG CHALLENGE WINNERS ANNOUNCED!!**

A BIG thank-you to everyone who took part in the public vote and well done to all the applicants for drumming up so much interest, we had nearly 7500 votes over the last week! The final list of winners has been annouced  and you can see them by clicking on the blue view entries tab on the right. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THE WINNERS!!!

Young Acheivers Awards 2010 is open for nominations!

Do you know an inspirational young person between the ages of 16 - 25 who has made an outstanding contribution to the arts, environment, community or sports? Celebrate their achievements by giving them the chance to win a cash prize plus a year of support and development opportunities.

 The Young Achievers Trust is pleased to announce that the 2010 Young Achievers Awards are open for nominations. Find out more about the awards and how to make a nomination by going to http://youngachieverstrust.wordpress.com/2010/05/. The deadline for nominations is the 30th September


Winning entrant Submitted by: Michael Brian Reed

Summary

To give everyone with a speech disability a way to SAY the same words speaking people say most each day. We are putting high frequency words on PowerPoint slides, with the sound added for each word, to give away and use in fun activities that research how useful and essential these words are. We want to make stories, movies and animations that foster language and literacy acquisition using these words, and reveal the plight of living without them. We want to do presentations, have permanently available virtual demonstrations online, and a website for free downloads and information sharing.

Link to youTube

Comments on this entry

28-Oct-2009 5.58PM   Michael Reed Says...

Thank you everyone for your good comments and votes!

28-Oct-2009 4.42PM   MK Says...

Hope u win

28-Oct-2009 4.34PM   Valerie Says...

Sounds like a wonderful idea

28-Oct-2009 3.17PM   craig lee Says...

you got my Vote good luck with it Mick :-))

28-Oct-2009 3.12PM   Gemma Eardley Says...

Good luck Michael, keep up the good work.

28-Oct-2009 3.09PM   Julie B Says...

Good Luck, hope you win

28-Oct-2009 2.58PM   laura gisby Says...

sounds like a fantastic project - I've used a similar kind of system when volunteering with young people with speech difficulties and it proved to be massively effective!

28-Oct-2009 2.27PM   Innovations Ferryhill Says...

We are all behind you Michael in your crusade and hope you can make life better for everyone in need well done

28-Oct-2009 2.00PM   Ali Says...

Best of luck Michael. This is realy a great idea.U will get sucess......i am sure.

28-Oct-2009 1.38PM   Saima Says...

Fantastic. Keep it up!! :)

28-Oct-2009 12.55PM   Michelle.B. Says...

This is a wicked idea, as it's true, we do take words for granted. and it's great to help those in areas that we can!!

28-Oct-2009 12.48PM   Katie Marple Says...

I think this is so important - good luck!!!

28-Oct-2009 12.09PM   Tamsin Says...

Go Michael! Well done for spreading the word :)

28-Oct-2009 11.47AM   claire ord big cuz Says...

hey michael best of luck this is a fantastic chance!

28-Oct-2009 10.15AM   julie bello Says...

keep up the good work.

27-Oct-2009 10.24PM   Kati Says...

Brilliant idea. Good luck, I hope you win.

27-Oct-2009 8.39PM   Terry Gibson Says...

Michael and his friends all have communication and learning disabilities. They have been working on art, AAC and multimedia projects together for two years now, entering talking stories and movies into International contests and giving talks to raise awareness. They are dedicated to helping themselves and others find a way to communicate, become literate and multimedia literate. They became a constituted group this September - FaCE - Facilitating Communication Everywhere. Michael is an MP on the

27-Oct-2009 12.41PM   helen williams Says...

I would like to vote for Michael Brian Reed to help non-speaking people to communicate more easily.

26-Oct-2009 5.06PM   lila Says...

lips

26-Oct-2009 5.04PM   Emma Donnelly Says...

tongue

26-Oct-2009 5.02PM   Jessica Wright Says...

Yo, Good luck!

26-Oct-2009 5.01PM   monica bagdadi Says...

hello!

26-Oct-2009 5.01PM   Joyce Krah Says...

Mouth

25-Oct-2009 9.56PM   Anne Blank Says...

Fantastic idea you have my support.

25-Oct-2009 4.04AM   Meredith Allan Says...

love your work Michael

25-Oct-2009 1.57AM   Jenny McMahon Says...

Sounds great

24-Oct-2009 11.49PM   Sally Hunter Says...

Everyone should have a chance to have a voice. Good luck with this project it sounds fabulous.

24-Oct-2009 11.44PM   NS Says...

I want to support Michael.

24-Oct-2009 9.02PM   Terry Hamman Says...

This is a very practical, useable and functional approach....makes a great deal of sense to me....

24-Oct-2009 7.02PM   Dr. Caroline Musselwhite Says...

What an amazing gift to our field this will be. Michael, you just HAVE to win! Sending best wishes and great vibes.

23-Oct-2009 9.40PM   Liz Wilson Says...

Michael this is a brilliant idea. so many young people can't get the equipment they need to communicate. This would make it affordable to so many more. Very young children now learn how to use powerpoint so it takes it out of the hands of specialists and into the hands of ordinary people.

23-Oct-2009 1.29PM   Heather Nevard Says...

it's a great idea - we all take words for granted, so let's help those who don't

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