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Speaker 1: So this is a little video about why I wrote Igniting Potential. Igniting Potential was a title I came up with because I feel that we miss so much of the potential of our children who think, learn, and experience our world differently. And so my premise of the book is that we haven't quite found all of the levers to pull to really ignite the potential in our young people. Now Igniting Potential isn't about normalizing children or letting children achieve exactly like their peers. It's about recognizing where our children are that have additional needs, and how can we ignite more of their potential so that they can connect with the world and feel that they belong. They can connect with the world and know that they are purposeful and can contribute and be citizens of their world. And I think sometimes what happens because of our systems at the moment not fully understanding our children, they fall, they fall out of all of that. You know, one of the things I'm really passionate about is the fact that we have no route in education for our children who think and learn and experience the world differently. If our child is typical, they may go onto school, into college, into university, etc., etc. and into a life that will always have challenge because that's life, but without as much challenge as our children with additional needs. And what I'm passionate about is have we created the right routes for those who learn and think differently. So the premise of the book is that, basically I'm starting off the conversation about a SEND pedagogy. Do we have one? And if we don't have one, what could it look like? So in the book you'll see that I've had—I've got lots of philosophical questions, and if you know me personally, that was going to be the case. Lots of philosophical questions, but I've also got some very, very practical things about how we support our children who think, learn, and experience our world differently. So I hope that you get this message from Igniting Potential. You can order it on Routledge or Amazon, and I look forward to hearing more about what you think.