Olivehickmott's Blog
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I'm Olive Hickmott. I am a learning coach, trainer and author, working with adults, school staff and children with learning difficulties, to accelerate learning by mental imagery.
Olivehickmott's Blog
1w ago
In the middle of a conversation, do you get a great idea and find yourself having to share it right there and then before you forget it? This is a typical challenge for visual thinkers, especially neurodivergent people. So, if ..read more
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1w ago
This week I start a new series of free coaching calls for parents and teachers of visual thinkers. Children and adults have a whole range of visual thinking skills which have a significant effect on their ability to learn, especially ..read more
Olivehickmott's Blog
3w ago
Any of these, Visual thinking is one of the ways people prefer to think. They may recall pictures of things they have seen or seen pictures of, for example elephants, a dog, favorite film, their children, a house they lived ..read more
Olivehickmott's Blog
1M ago
Does your head ever feel like this? Completely overwhelmed and maybe even full of fog. Where has your clear thinking gone? In today’s Guardian, Sian Boyle reports that life can be challenging when you have ADHD and autism. Read her ..read more
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1M ago
A common theme at the Neurodiversity Celebration, last week, the extraordinary amount of creativity shared with neurodivergent people. These are the children who came into the world with all these creative skills and refuse to conform to the auditory sequential ..read more
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1M ago
from another one of our Empowering Learning Practitioners. Talking about grandparents and ADHD recently, they have a tough time. They want to help their grandchildren, they don’t want to upset their children and when they were kids nobody talked about ..read more
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1M ago
What an exceptional conference, thank you: 25 events, more than 80 presenters on a whole variety of topics. The topic I have just listened to, on neurodiversity around the world had 8000 people registered. And it was all free, sponsored ..read more
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1M ago
To grow up as a visual thinker, and 98% of 4-year-olds are, and not to have learned how to use your mental images for literacy and numeracy and not being overwhelmed by too many pictures. I do, and the experience ..read more
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2M ago
After a very busy autumn and new year of releasing the new Neurodivergent Toolkit we have now updated the Empowering Learning Web-site. It is quite remarkable how much we have learned through coaching students year on year. Diverse visual thinkers ..read more
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2M ago
I was thinking that every woman deserves a bunch of red roses for International Women’s Day. Then I looked through my large social media followers and realised that at least 80% of them are women, and I wondered why. I ..read more