Speakers

Elaine is a parenting coach, speaker and author of ‘My Child’s Different’. Her expertise was
born from real life experience, when her son was excluded from his third school at the age of
seven. Using The Parent Practice methodology, her son’s sense of self worth was restored
with lots of positive encouragement, giving him responsibility, encouraging independence,
helping him understand and accept his feelings of difference, his anxieties, frustrations and
anger, and helping him learn from failure and bounce back from set-backs.

The outcome was he finished school as Head Boy, and is now a budding entrepreneur.
A huge testament to the transformative work and impact The Parent Practice has on families
and children. The story is told in her TEDX talk here on Neuro Diversity is a super power
and not a problem.

She’s not Wonder Woman or Super Nanny, not Mary Poppins or Nanny McPhee, she’s just
herself (and in essence, she’s probably you) and that’s what makes her different. She’s been
at the end of her tether wondering why her child is different and what she can do to support
him. She has learned first hand the skills it takes not just to survive the struggle, but to get
to the other side and change the story.

She niches in neuro diversity and working with separated families helping then develop a
plan to share the care and ensure the children are always in the centre and not the middle.
It’s her mission to create a happier future generation by sharing parenting strategies that will
have an authentic impact, transforming challenging children into confident and contented
children with her personal style and a positive approach.