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Podcast: Dream Big Podcast for Kids
Episode: How Amanda Gorman Turned Her Speech Impediment Into her Superpower!
Description: This episode of the Dream Big Podcast is inspired by Amanda Gorman, the nation's first Youth Poet Laureate. Most of the world first witnessed the greatness of Amanda Gorman at the Presidential Inauguration, when she delivered her masterpiece of a poem The Hills We Climb. Amanda was so poised, so confident, so riveting in her delivery that I'm sure you would have never guessed that she spent most of her life struggling with a speech impediment. Into her teen years, Amanda had great difficulty pronouncing the letter R. So how did Amanda overcome this obstacle and deliver one of the...