The Importance of Plain Language and Clear Communication as Council Members - 03/10/2022

Welcome to my first advocacy training video post. I hope to showcase more over time. I have meant to have more prior ones up here but have had difficulties uploading. This is my fifth in person advocacy training before a group my first hybrid training (zoom and in person) and first in person of some form since Covid hit. It is my third state address and fifth lecture before a group in Arkansas on advocacy and developmental disability issues. Previously I have given a speech to youth at a Community of Champions Event and at a gala at Jonesboro before a few hundred on life on the Spectrum, alongside two guest lectures to Pulaski Tech's 3D Culinary program.

I have spoken at two national conferences one time on Assertiveness in Newport Beach with other disability self-advocates in the 90s and at the National Self Advocates Becoming Enabled COnference on the topic on how humor impacts social change and should be used as a tool in societal awareness on disability issues of inclusion and integration. This training is for the council of which I have been appointed Vice-chairperson. It is a training portions of which were pulled from my Jonesboro Gala and repackaged into a communication focused training on clear language and how that is important in our mission of inclusivity, integration and independence. Please share with others!
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