Board of DD honors contest winners
The following students were selected as winners of the Coshocton County Board of Developmental Disabilities coloring contest: front row from left – Jenna Wylie, kindergarten, Sacred Heart; Elyse Hoke, first grade, Warsaw Elementary School; Waylon Mizer, third grade, Warsaw Elementary School; Nayerda Martin, kindergarten, Keene Elementary School; back row – Kaelyn McClister, second grade, Coshocton Elementary School; Thomas Vu, first grade, Sacred Heart; Seth Miller, second grade, Coshocton Christian School; Camron Mlodek, second grade, Ridgewood Elementary School; and Serenity Lapp, kindergarten, Conesville Elementary School. Not pictured are: Trace Stout, third grade, Union Elementary School, Riley Gottardi, third grade, Keene Elementary School, and Serenity Arens, first grade, Coshocton Elementary School. Josie Sellers | Beacon
The following students were selected as winners of the Coshocton County Board of Developmental Disabilities essay contest: front row from left – Kaleb Nettles, fourth grade, Ridgewood Middle School; Paul Lukco, fifth grade, Ridgewood Middle School; Alexia Jennings, sixth grade, Sacred Heart; back row – Kadence Sharier, fourth grade, Ridgewood Middle School; Lacee Garvin, fifth grade, Union Elementary School; Ashley Bryant, fifth grade, Coshocton Elementary School; and Marissa Sheneman, fourth grade, Keene Elementary School. Not pictured are: Bridgette Bible, sixth grade, Keene Elementary School and Savannah Ramsey, sixth grade, Union Elementary School. Josie Sellers | Beacon
COSHOCTON – The Coshocton County Board of Developmental Disabilities held two contests for elementary school children as part of its March Developmental Disability Awareness Month celebration.
“This is the second year we’ve done these contests and this year every school in the whole county participated,” said Shannon Shontz, director of education at Hopewell School.
Fourth through sixth graders were asked to respond to one of two essay questions dealing with supporting and encouraging people with disabilities and how to include them. Kindergarten through third graders colored pictures that included people with disabilities.
“We are always looking for ways to spread awareness,” Shontz said. “The essays gave children a chance to reflect on what it’s like to have disabilities and then write. With the little ones they learn a lot from pictures and visuals so they could talk about what they saw in their pictures. We think the contests were very successful and a great way to reach out to the schools.”
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