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). 

Links:

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

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