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
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
Olivehickmott's Blog
2w 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
Olivehickmott's Blog
3w 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
Olivehickmott's Blog
3w 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
Olivehickmott's Blog
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
Olivehickmott's Blog
1M 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
Olivehickmott's Blog
1M 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
Olivehickmott's Blog
1M ago
Just think about this: When we measure word recognition, we are in fact measuring the skill to recognise words, we don’t want students to be stuck in phonics for decoding words they have seen many times before; it is boring ..read more
Olivehickmott's Blog
1M ago
We believe that all children should be valued for their unique diverse thinking and learning contributions. In addition they must learn to value their own unique abilities. If this were true we would have many many more happy parents, children ..read more
Olivehickmott's Blog
2M ago
A question: How many neurodivergent children have you got in your class today? And with the rate of requests for diagnosis, how long will it be before you have more neurodivergent children than neurotypical. What will the challenge be then ..read more