What Gives Me #GiftedJoy – John Cridland

Global Gifted,Talented and Neurodiverse (GTN) Awareness Week 2022. The Potential Trust Potential Blog What gives me #GiftedJoy? By John Cridland. 25 years ago I was asked to do a difficult but very worthwhile role which turned out to result in the most satisfying achievement of my professional life . I was asked […]
What Gives Me #GiftedJoy – Denise Yates

Global Gifted,Talented and Neurodiverse (GTN) Awareness Week 2022. What Gives Me #GiftedJoy By Denise Yates, Trustee of The Potential Trust. What gives me #GiftedJoy is when I use my stubbornness and annoyance with injustice as a force for trying to change the world. How best can I relay what I mean? Writing this […]
What Gives Me #GiftedJoy – Anna Comino James

Global Gifted,Talented and Neurodiverse (GTN) Awareness Week 2022. What Gives Me #GiftedJoy By Anna Comino James, Founder of The Potential Trust. What gives me #GiftedJoy is my brain putting together snippets of information and coming up with ideas of how to forward the work I have been involved in since 1984 as a Trustee […]
Potential Story – Lee

The Potential Trust Potential Stories. Potential Stories about individuals with High Learning Potential and Dual and Multiple Exceptionality (High Learning Potential and Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities) Why telling real stories is so important. Children, young people and adults with High Learning Potential and Dual and Multiple Exceptionalities (DME) should have their gifts and talents […]
Potential Story – Simon

The Potential Trust Potential Stories. Potential Stories about individuals with High Learning Potential and Dual and Multiple Exceptionality (High Learning Potential and Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities) Why telling real stories is so important. Children, young people and adults with High Learning Potential and Dual and Multiple Exceptionalities (DME) should have their gifts and talents […]
Parenting Dual Exceptional Children.

Parenting Dual Exceptional Children By Denise Yates, Consultant, Author and Trustee of The Potential Trust. No textbook can really prepare you for the reality of having your first child; and when that child has High Learning Potential as well as Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities, the rule book really does go out of the window. […]
Potential Story – Joanna

Why telling real stories about children and young people with Dual and Multiple Exceptionality is so important. Children and young people with Dual and Multiple Exceptionalities (DME) are highly able and also have special educational needs and/or one or more disabilities (SEND). They are often not easy to identify and their needs even harder to […]
What I wish I’d been told as a child with high Learning Potential

By Jim Emerton, member of British Mensa. What I wish I’d been told as a child with high Learning Potential A gifted child, I was a sensitive boy with an eccentric personality. As I am now at 72, my thirst for knowledge of the external worlds and inner being was insatiable and I had a […]
Parenting a child with High Learning Potential – what I wish someone had told me when I had my child.

By Julie Taplin, Chief Executive, Potential Plus UK Parenting a child with High Learning Potential – what I wish someone had told me when I had my child. I actually don’t think there is anything I would have wanted to be told at the time I had my child. It might have made me fearful […]
Potential Story – Kerry

Why telling real stories about children and young people with Dual and Multiple Exceptionality is so important. Children and young people with Dual and Multiple Exceptionalities (DME) are highly able and also have special educational needs and/or one or more disabilities (SEND). They are often not easy to identify and their needs even harder to […]