Speech on vaccinations for my speech class...

[leighi123]

I have to give an "informative" speech for my speech class and was thinking of doing it on vaccinations.   I have about 6min to speak, and it needs to be informative vs. persuasive.   My audience includes college students that are fresh out of high school, as well as some older adults returning to school.  I know a couple of the students work at a daycare, and several have children (all ages).  

Does anyone have ideas on how I should approach this topic and whats important to focus on?    

I know when my ds was born, a family friend visited him when he was just a couple days old and said "have you heard all that stuff about vaccinations?  You should look into that"  (this is all he said),  I started researching and decided not to vax my ds at all.  So I think a big part of it is just letting people know that they need to think about it and do a little research and decide, instead of just vaccinating because 'you are supposed to' or 'the pedi said to".   

I think its something that a lot of people dont even think about one way or another, they just do it.   So for m speech I just want to give some info that makes people think about it and want to look into it more.  

[ammiga]

You could talk about common vaccine ingredient and the fact that every state allows for exemptions (few people realize this).

[newmum35]

Agreed with pp... informative so that people know they DO have a choice and they can opt out if they want by using the exemption. Two states have medical exemption only. Many have philosophical. 48 have religious.  Talk about possible vaccine reactions which are listed right on the manufacturers insert in fine print - everyone should weigh the benefit/vs risk for each individual vaccine. 

[SuburbanHippie]

Definitely narrow it down to a specific vaccine-related topic or you're going to go far past 6 minutes.  I would focus on the chicken pox vaccine myself as it isn't as controversial and the info could easily fit into 6 minutes.