Champion

Show Transcript

<p><strong>[00:03]</strong> <em>Speaker (Chloe):</em> I want to be a champion of Boccia in Australia.</p>
<p><strong>[00:07]</strong> <em>Speaker (Tammy):</em> And when Chloe first said she wanted to become a champion of Australia, it just means that, yeah, she she's determined.</p>
<p><strong>[00:15]</strong> <em>Speaker (Tammy):</em> She's got a goal set and she wants to, yeah, aim for something and and go for it.</p>
<p><strong>[00:19]</strong> <em>Speaker (Host):</em> If you could share one thing about disability, what would it be?</p>
<p><strong>[00:23]</strong> <em>Speaker (Host):</em> We asked Chloe and Tammy.</p>
<p><strong>[00:26]</strong> <em>Speaker (Host):</em> They want you to know this.</p>
<p><strong>[00:27]</strong> <em>Speaker (Tammy):</em> When Chloe was first diagnosed, yeah, we were, we told, yeah, a lot of different things of what her life could look like.</p>
<p><strong>[00:35]</strong> <em>Speaker (Tammy):</em> Initial we were told that she probably wouldn't develop much further than a 2 year old.</p>
<p><strong>[00:39]</strong> <em>Speaker (Tammy):</em> Thankfully, you know, we are, we are past that.</p>
<p><strong>[00:41]</strong> <em>Speaker (Tammy):</em> She's, she's about a five year old, even though we're, you know, coming onto 12 now.</p>
<p><strong>[00:46]</strong> <em>Speaker (Tammy):</em> The only phrase that we have for Chloe is, yeah, in her own time and in her own way.</p>
<p><strong>[00:50]</strong> <em>Speaker (Tammy):</em> And that's just been something that that's always been Chloe.</p>
<p><strong>[00:53]</strong> <em>Speaker (Tammy):</em> Every little milestone, everything that she does in life, it's it's her way.</p>
<p><strong>[00:56]</strong> <em>Speaker (Tammy):</em> It's however she gets it, whenever she gets it.</p>
<p><strong>[00:59]</strong> <em>Speaker (Tammy):</em> If you take practice and practice, you get better and better.</p>
<p><strong>[01:07]</strong> <em>Speaker (Tammy):</em> A few years ago she was nearly in a wheelchair full time just because her fatigue in her legs and, and muscles, you know, weren't, weren't working like they should be.</p>
<p><strong>[01:16]</strong> <em>Speaker (Tammy):</em> The more she wanted to do it and the more she did it, the less she was using a wheelchair.</p>
<p><strong>[01:19]</strong> <em>Speaker (Tammy):</em> Even just to go to the shops.</p>
<p><strong>[01:20]</strong> <em>Speaker (Tammy):</em> We were able to find that, you know, after a while she was able to walk around the shops for a quick shopping trip to a point where now where she hasn't been in a wheelchair for nearly a year.</p>
<p><strong>[01:29]</strong> <em>Speaker (Tammy):</em> Early on, when Chloe was starting to play cricket, her physio sessions were cricket sessions.</p>
<p><strong>[01:33]</strong> <em>Speaker (Tammy):</em> We would be at the park playing cricket because that's what she wanted to do and that's how we were able to get her moving and developing her gross motor skills by playing cricket in the park.</p>
<p><strong>[01:42]</strong> <em>Speaker (Tammy):</em> Always keen to know what, you know, what Chloe's doing and how to support her individually, not just, you know, what their textbooks sort of say.</p>
<p><strong>[01:50]</strong> <em>Speaker (Tammy):</em> Definitely got that determination and that and that drive, I guess to want to be successful and to want to do things and, and to learn the right way.</p>
<p><strong>[01:59]</strong> <em>Speaker (Tammy):</em> I do think Chloe is a champion in into my eyes, she is a champion.</p>
<p><strong>[02:03]</strong> <em>Speaker (Chloe):</em> Champion</p>
<p><strong>[02:07]</strong> <em>Speaker (Host):</em> We're proud to be a part of Chloe and Tammy's story.</p>
<p><strong>[02:10]</strong> <em>Speaker (Host):</em> To make plan management part of yours, visit Plan Partners.</p>