An innovative way to support children with special needs | Billy Samuel Mwape

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Health & Fitness, Fitness, Shoshana Ungerleider, Medicine, How To Be Healthier, Ted Shoshana, Ted Talks Health

4.2 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

After his son was diagnosed with cerebral palsy, Billy Samuel Mwape realized that his project management skills might be put to use to support his child's special needs. In this inspiring, personal talk, he describes how project management -- the process of leading a team's work to achieve goals on a tight timeline -- can help you tackle life's biggest challenges.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:07.7	This is Ted Health.
0:08.7	I'm Dr. Shoshana Unger-Lighter.
0:13.4	Can the principles of project management help you become a better parent?
0:18.0	After his son, Lubuto, was diagnosed with cerebral palsy.
0:21.8	Project management consultant, Billy Samuel Moate, took the same skills he uses to help teams
0:27.0	achieve milestones and applied them to support his infant son's development.
0:32.0	At his Ted at PMI Talk, he shares how small measurable goals can lead to incredible results.
0:57.0	It is a third of March, 2016, and I'm anxiously waiting for my wife to deliver our first
1:06.8	phone sign.
1:08.9	Second stand in two minutes, then hours without a sign of a child coming through.
1:16.0	Then I meet wife images with a silent baby in her hands and she runs past me as though
1:21.3	I'm not even there.
1:23.8	Why is he not crying?
1:27.0	I'm grouped with shoes in my spine as I run after high in terror.
1:32.5	She puts the baby on a bench and begins a resuscitation procedure.
1:37.8	30 minutes later, she tells me, don't worry, he will be fine.
1:45.9	And thank you for staying calm.
1:48.9	He was placed in the ICU.
1:52.2	And though I can not touch him, I repeatedly say, shine on my son.
1:59.2	Don't give up.
2:00.2	I am here with you and you don't have to be scared.
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