Kuadriplejik kisilerin hayata katilimi icin destek olmak (Resourcing People With Quadriplegia to Live Well)

Konugum Order of Australia Madalyasi sahibi, basarili bir paralimpik atlet olmanin yanisira Victoria’da bir engelli hizmet ve destek kuruluşunda yöneticilik yapan Nazim Erdem. Bu soyleside Nazim, Practice Leader olarak gorev yaptigi Australian Quadriplegic Association da (AQA) engellilerinin toplum icersinde aktif bir sekilde yer alip, bagimsiz hareket edebilmelerine yardimci olan mevcut servislerden ve bireylerin bunlardan nasil yararlanabilecekleri ile ilgili herkese cok yararli olabilecel bilgiler paylasmaktir.

About the guest speaker

Tekerlekli bir Paralimpik olan Nazim Erdem (Naz), Turkiyede dogmus cok kucuk  yaslardan sonra ailesiyle birlikte Avustralya'ya göç etmistir.  20 yaşında, sığ bir suya atladigi icin kuadriplegik (dört uzvun da felc olmasi)  olmustir. Nazim Erdem su an Avustralya Quadriplegic Association'da (AQA) Practice Leader olarak çalışıyor ve  yaralanmalar, hastalıklar ve diğer olaylar nedeniyle hayatları etkilenen insanlara, yaşamın her alanına katılmaları ve katkıda bulunmaları için destek saglamaktadir.  Nazim, gecirdigi kazadan sonra omurilik yaralanması rehabilitasyonu sirasinda tanistigi bu kuruma birkaç yıl sonra, 1997'de calisan olarak katılmistir. 

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Today's guest speaker is Nazim Erdem, who is the recipient of an Order of Australia Medal, a successful Paralympic athlete and is a team leader in a disability service and support organisation in Victoria. In this interview, Nazim shares information and services offered by the Australian Quadriplegic Association (AQA), where he works as a Practice Leader. This information can be very useful to everyone involved in the disability community and gives insight into how individuals can benefit from existing services that help them act independently.

About the guest speaker

A Paralympian on wheels, Nazim Erdem (Naz) was born in Turkey and later migrated to Australia with his family. He became quadriplegic (a person affected by paralysis of all four limbs) at the age of 20 after diving off a pier into shallow water. Nazim Erdem now works as Practice Leader at the Australian Quadriplegic Association (AQA), a member-based not-for-profit organisation. For more than 30 years, they have resourced people whose lives have been disrupted by injuries, illnesses, and other events, to participate in all aspects of life fully. Nazim joined AQA in 1997, a few years after being introduced to the organisation via the support he himself received after sustaining a spinal cord injury from diving into shallow water. 

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