{"id":672,"date":"2019-08-01T13:55:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T03:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/?p=672"},"modified":"2020-03-13T12:09:01","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T01:09:01","slug":"confident-speakers-program-reaps-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/2019\/08\/01\/confident-speakers-program-reaps-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Confident speakers program reaps awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In the print issue of Voice for August we featured an article on the award winning program Confident Speakers developed and run for the past 23 years by David Williams of the Down Syndrome Association of ACT. In November 2018, David was awarded the 2019 ACT Local Hero in the Australian of the Year awards for his work with Confident Speakers and for running the Athlete Leadership Program for Special Olympics ACT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See David speak about his award here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Australian of the Year: David Williams, disability advocate #AOTY2019\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NQIxvOAL3Ts?feature=oembed&#038;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find out more about the Confident Speakers program here: <a href=\"https:\/\/actdsa.org.au\/the-confident-speakers-program\/\">https:\/\/actdsa.org.au\/the-confident-speakers-program\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the print issue of Voice for August we featured an article on the award winning program Confident Speakers developed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[10,9,11],"class_list":["post-672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-act","tag-down-syndrome","tag-skill-building"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":674,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions\/674"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downsyndrome.org.au\/voice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}