S1 E10 - Dr. Olayinka Akindayomi: Championing Inclusiveness for Young People with Special Needs

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The Other Room - Redefining Women and Work

Oreoluwa Lesi

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The Other Room shines a light on the untold stories of women and work. Host Oreoluwa Lesi speaks with exceptional African women about their career paths towards finding work that fills them purpose. Oreoluwa founded the award-winning nonprofit organisation, the Women’s Technology Empowerment Centre (W.TEC), which equips girls with the skills and confidence for fulfilling careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths: https://www.wtec.org.ng IG: https://www.instagram.com/the.other.room.podcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/other_room_pod Leave a Review: https://apple.co/3bQEhoN

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S1 E10 - Dr. Olayinka Akindayomi: Championing Inclusiveness for Young People with Special Needs

The Other Room - Redefining Women and Work

1 hour 4 minutes 29 seconds

5 years ago

S1 E10 - Dr. Olayinka Akindayomi: Championing Inclusiveness for Young People with Special Needs

Work Focus: Medicine, Intellectual & Developmental Disabilities, Special Needs

I spoke to Dr. Olayinka Akindayomi, who is the Founder and Service Director of the Children’s Developmental Center (CDC) in Lagos, Nigeria. CDC is a not-for-profit organisation, established by her over 20 years ago, which provides a broad range of educational and support services for children and young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) and their families within the community.

She started early intervention programmes for children with IDD at the Massey Street Children’s Hospital in Lagos 10 years ago and has started similar programmes in six other states in Nigeria, which has trained thousands of mothers to date.

She has trained health and educational professionals from the 6 geopolitical zones in collaboration with the Federal Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation (WHO). She has also collaborated in setting up 3 voluntary community projects providing assessment and therapy to hundreds of children with disabilities.

From 2003, Dr. Akindayomi has been an Associate Lecturer of the Institute of Child Health and Primary Care - College of Medicine at the University of Lagos and Lagos State University Teaching Hospital.

She is the recipient of the Rare Gem Award recognized by UNICEF, UNIFEM, UNFPA, UNIC and UNDP as well as the Service to Humanity Award from the Lagos State Government.

Dr. Akindayomi is an accredited trainer and has trained over 2,000 teachers through the train-the-trainers programmes for the National Teachers Association. She has been involved with the national strategy for children with disabilities as well as the Lagos State Government Special Peoples Law.

She was recently recognized as a Fellow of the Institute of Management Consultants (FIMC) and a Certified Management Consultant (CMC).

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Children’s Developmental Center (CDC) - https://www.linkedin.com/company/children%27s-development-centre

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