Reasons to Care Episode 13: Celebrating Everyone’s Achievements
Shownotes - Episode 13
Celebrating Everyone’s Achievements with Lynda Larke - E13
The people we support are all capable of extraordinary things, and they deserve a chance to be recognised for every step of progress they make.
That’s how the OPT Award came to fruition, and its creator Lynda Larke is with us to kick off our latest series of Reasons to Care!
Join us to discover how the OPT Award can help inspire the people we support to achieve the impossible, step outside of their comfort zones, and create opportunities!
This episode covers:
The introduction of the OPT Award, and the success stories that it’s given rise to
Educating society about the capabilities of the people that we support across Diverse Abilities and beyond
How structured support helps people to overcome fears and break boundaries
The importance of empowerment through recognition
Our highlights from this episode…
“Kids and adults with additional needs aren’t really known for achieving or contributing to the community, and I felt very passionately that they needed some accreditation for the way they had to live their lives.” - 3:35 - Lynda Larke
“The OPT Award is as flexible as the children who take part in it are. They're all very, very unique, and my motto is that there's no such phrase as ‘We can't do that’.” - 4:05 - Lynda Larke
“The beauty of this award is that it is so individual, and it's up to whoever takes part in that award to determine what those students are going to try and achieve.” - 7:50 - Lynda Larke
“The OPT Award was made so that there really isn’t a school that it wouldn’t work with.” - 17:25 - Lynda Larke
“We’re such a diverse society, and yet through the eyes of children, we are the same. That’s the message we hope to get through to everybody.” - 32:55 - Lynda Larke
Links & references
OPT Award
Clare Rochford
https://www.linkedin.com/in/clare-rochford-65b9501b7/
Join the Diverse Abilities Team
https://diverseabilities.org.uk/careers
Diverse Abilities
https://diverseabilities.org.uk/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/diverse-abilities-plus/