The DME Trust has Launched!
Support without Limits Potential Plus UK, in collaboration with nasen, the National Association for Special Educational Needs, has established The [...]
10 Key Factors in Educating Young People with Dual or Multiple Exceptionality (DME)
Potential Plus UK’s Senior Education Consultant and Director of the DME Trust, Rebecca Howell, distils the important factors in providing high quality education for young people [...]
Identifying and Supporting Learners with Dual or Multiple Exceptionality (DME)
Dual or multiple exceptionality is the term used to describe someone who has both high ability (high learning potential / gifted / more able) and some [...]
Inspirational Figures: For Dual or Multiple Exceptional Learners – A Focus on Dyslexia and Dyspraxia
10% of children with high learning potential face significant personal hurdles, according to the most recent government statistics analysed by Potential Plus UK. These high potential [...]
Teacher, This is How You Can Help a Child with Handwriting Difficulties by Mariza Ferreira
In this occasional series by Paediatric Occupational Therapist Mariza Ferreira, we consider some of the sensory, motor coordination and emotional regulatory issues which could be affecting [...]
What I Want Every Teacher to Know by Occupational Therapist Mariza Ferreira
In this new occasional series by Paediatric Occupational Therapist Mariza Ferreira, we consider some of the sensory, motor coordination and emotional regulatory issues which could be [...]
One Occupational Therapist’s Journey into Dual or Multiple Exceptionality by Mariza Ferreira
One Occupational Therapist’s Journey into Discovering How Her Profession is the Vital Link for Helping Children With Dual Or Multiple Exceptionality by Mariza [...]
Best Practice in Provision for Dual or Multiple Exceptional (DME) Learners
DME learners have one or more special educational need or disability alongside high ability or achievement. In her 2015 book, Teaching Gifted Children with Special Educational [...]
Clearly Able, Yet Complicated? – Might Your Child Have ‘DME’?
‘Unusual’ in both their potential and in their obstacles? Here is a simple guide to Dual or Multiple Exceptionality (DME). Is your child (or student) clearly [...]
Working Memory – A Brief Guide
What Is It? One of the brain’s executive functions, working memory is the ability to hold new information in the short term whilst it is needed [...]