This subject is especially important to me as it is to anyone who has it or knows someone else who has it.
The following speech was the very same speech I have written - and addressed - back in Grade 8 at St. Paul Catholic Elementary School. A year later at Sacred Heart Catholic High School, I addressed this speech again, and it took me as far as Ottawa for the Provincial Public Speaking Contest.
This speech caught the attention of countless children and parents attending the competition, and it earned me two standing ovations.
If you have A.S. - or know someone else who has it - I hope you enjoy what needs to be heard and seen.
The original audio from this video (save for the music I threw in) can also be found on my SoundCloud (https://soundcloud.com/kelly-vanveen/aspergers-syndrome-speech).
Hope this gives you a better visual understanding behind the words of my speech that so many children/students/adults deal with on a daily basis.
