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2010 Better Hearing and Speech Month WINNERS

            Congratulations to our winners!  And thanks to all students who submitted entries for the annual statewide Better Hearing and Speech Month coloring and essay contests.  We are pleased to announce the grand prize winners and runners up in each category.  Each student received a certificate and a monetary prize. 

Coloring Contest

  Grand Prize

  Brayden Kile, Kindergarten

  Central Columbia, PA

Runner Up

Autumn Patterson, third grade

Trinity South Elementary School, Washington, PA

Runner Up

Haze Henwood, second grade

Mary Devine Elementary School, Croydon, PA

Runner Up

Andrew Parobek, first grade

Tri-Valley School District, Valley View, PA

Essay Contest

Grand Prize

Trenton Lafferty, Fourth Grade

Cyber School - Janet Pennington, SLP

Following is Trenton’s essay

Communication is a very important thing to talk and ask for something. Communication allows a person to tell others how much they are loved. Communication lets me talk to my best friend, Janet. Communication means to say please and thank you to others. Communication helps me to use my inside voice. It is nice to say hello and good-bye to others. It is important to tell others if I’m sick or lost. Communication helps me to learn more facts.

Runners Up

Melsita Torres

Benjamin Rush Elementary - Jill Seidman, SLP

Bensalem, PA

Following is Melsita's essay

I am going to tell you about how me and my friends communicate with each other. We communicate in many different ways, we talk to each other we text each other, or if someone can't listen you can do sign language with them or even through computers. But the most people who communicate is by texting each other. Also by emailing. When you have friends it doesn't matter what way you communicate you can text, talk, email and in different ways but having friends you can try to do many thing as long as you want to communicate and if your friends  do the same thing.

Jonathan Potter

Erin Dudley Forbes Charter School - Karen King, SLP

Oxford, PA

Following is Jonathan's essay

The teacher communicates with me. She puts me in the front of the room, uses the fm system and looks at me. One person talks and one listens. You use good eye contact and language. If you don't use the same language you can't understand what they're saying. Deaf people use sign language. People talk on cell phones. Cell phones allow you to talk without meeting him/her. Also you can talk on the internet because there's Club Penguin, Roblox.com, You Tube and email. You can communicate by radio and that's all I have to say.

Lucas Stehle

Pottsgrove School District - Erin Myers, SLP

Pottstown, PA

Following is Lucas' essay

There are different ways of communicating. Like when you talk to people you are communicating to people. Sign language is another way to communicate with people. When you instant message you are communicating with people on the internet. Another way to communicate on the internet is Facebook. One way of communicating is the telephone which a lot of people do. Texting is what a very many people do just like my sister and mother. Another thing that you can communicate with on the phone is voicemail. The thing you can communicate with on the computer is video chat. And that is all the ways you can communicate.

Congratulations to our winners and a special thank you to all students who participated in the contests!  Watch for the campaign kick off announcement next year on the PSHA website.