Ask Away: How To Effectively Advocate & Speak Up For Your Child with High Learning Potential

Advocating for your child with high learning potential can sometimes feel daunting, whether it’s speaking up at school, navigating support, or making sure their needs [...]

2025-09-10T15:25:30+01:00September 10th, 2025|Categories: Focus on Potential, High Learning Potential|Tags: , |

Supporting Complexity in HLP and DME children

When Smart Isn’t Simple  Many children with high learning potential (HLP) surprise the adults around them. They might learn quickly, ask challenging questions, or think [...]

Why Standardised Tests Matter in Assessments for Children

Helping parents understand the role of cognitive and achievement tests When we assess children using tests that measure things like cognitive ability (how they think and solve [...]

Achievements of our Opportunity Access Fund over 12 years

We are proud to report that this is our twelfth year in providing subsidised assessments for families from disadvantaged groups.  Families with high learning potential children [...]

He’s Not a Bad Kid, Just Misunderstood: Ben’s Story

When a teacher says they have never, in 25 years of teaching, met such a stubborn child, you know that you are in for an interesting [...]

Overexcitabilities: Sensual Overexcitability

Children with high learning potential, especially those who display Sensual Overexcitability, have a heightened awareness of one or all five senses: sight, smell, taste, touch, and [...]

Overexcitabilities: Emotional Overexcitability

Children with high learning potential, especially those who display Emotional Overexcitability, tend to experience the world, and their emotions, with particularly great intensity. Whilst such intensity [...]

Overexcitabilities: Imaginational Overexcitability

Children with high learning potential, especially those who display Imaginational Overexcitability, can have the most wonderfully wild imaginations and immense creativity, but they may also find [...]

Overexcitabilities: Intellectual Overexcitability

Children with high learning potential, especially those who display Intellectual Overexcitability, are highly curious and voracious in their pursuit of knowledge in their areas of interest. [...]

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