Does your child have both high learning potential and special educational needs or disabilities? This workshop will consider ways parents can support young people with dual or multiple exceptionalities (DME). We will talk about finding out more about your child’s profile, how to incorporate your child’s strengths and interests into their learning, strategies to support sensitivities and challenges such as executive functioning, attention difficulties, slow processing, sensory processing difficulties and low self-esteem.
Session Presenter
Rebecca Howell
Rebeca is Potential Plus UK’s Senior Education Advisor and Director of the DME Trust, a collaboration between Potential Plus UK and nasen (National Association for Special Educational Needs). Rebecca has overall responsibility for Potential Plus UK’s assessment and advice services, developing new services and designs and runs our parent courses. Her background is in educational research and school leadership support. She is currently a Chair of Governors at The Hazeley Academy and a Trustee of the 5 Dimensions Multi-Academy Trust and Steel City Schools Partnership, and is the parent of three children with high learning potential, two of whom have additional learning needs.
