Ethan speaking up for Voice Box awards

CASTLE Tower pupil Ethan Redmond is urging local pupils to enter this year’s RCSLT Voice Box Awards.

The competition seeks to attract the best jokers from schools across the country and Ethan won the secondary school category last year.

“It was great to win the secondary award last year. We had so much fun last year with Dr Nick and meeting our MLAs,” Etha said.

Launching this year’s awards, William Hay MLA, Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly, said: “As an institution in which speaking and communication play a huge part, I have been very keen that the Assembly should provide a platform to highlight the speech and language difficulties many people face.

“It is particularly important that we give all of our children and young people the support, encouragement and recognition they deserve.

The grand final will once again be held in the Parliament Building’s historic Senate Chamber to highlight the importance of communication skills to young people and elected representatives as part of the UK wide Giving Voice campaign.

The competition finale will bring together pupils, parents, teachers, MLAs and speech and language therapists for a day of comedy.

Finalists will be selected to attend a live joke telling event at Parliament Buildings in November, and one lucky winner will win an iPad 2.

For more information on speech and language therapy please visit www.rcslt.org and for the Giving Voice campaign please visit www.givingvoiceuk.org

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