YLF News
YLF 2007 Highlights
July 20, 2007
Florida Teens Attend Leadership Forum
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Reporter: Andrea Candrian
Email Address: andrea.candrian@wctv.tv
TALLAHASSEE -- Teens from around Florida are learning about applying their disabilities to becoming a leader among peers.
More than fifty Florida high schoolers with disabilities are in town for the Youth Leadership Forum. The students have disabilities ranging from hearing and visual impairments, to paraplegia and autism.
The students attended a job fair to learn about how to accomplish their career and personal goals. They're also learning about how to deal with disabilities beyond their own.
"One part of it is if i become blind, right now I'm deaf, so if I become blind and deaf it'll be harder for me to understand how to detect signing or how to use a cane," said Erinn Powell, a seventeen-year-old student from Tallahassee. "And it's helping me to know for the future."
Students also got the chance to meet the lieutenant governor this week. The four day forum wraps up Saturday.
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Sponsored by United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration on Developmental Disabilities and the Florida Developmental Disabilities Council, Inc. |
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