Inspirational Steve Lloyd is already a local hero at the Shaw Trust Neath-based Disability Action Centre where he's enjoying his first job. Now he is also a national STAR.
Steve, born with Athetoid Cerebral Palsy, spends all his waking hours in a wheelchair and can communicate only with one finger through a word board he devised himself. He wasn't able to travel on the day to collect his Special Recognition Award, but was presented with his trophy earlier on in November.
Steve said, "I'm quite flabbergasted and over the moon about winning the National Award. Luckily, I had prepared a speech a few days before on my home computer, just in case the unthinkable happened and I won an award."
"I'm just a 'normal' human being, who is trying to do the best I can in life, like the rest of the human race. I realise I cannot achieve as much as able-boded people can, but that's no excuse to treat me any different, just because I am severely disabled and in a wheelchair," added Steve.
