Beyond Special Needs: The Future of Neuroinclusive Learning, presented by Jamelia Gay, challenges participants to reimagine how we see and support children with diverse minds. Too often, outdated deficit-based narratives define learners by their struggles instead of their strengths. Jamelia reframes the conversation through a neuroinclusive lens that promotes agency, belonging, and capacity as the foundation for positioning unique minds for success. Jamelia has collaborated with leading colleges, childcare networks, and school boards to design strategic learning experiences that leave a lasting impact. With over a decade of experience as an early childhood and post-secondary educator, neuroinclusive learning strategist, and funded researcher, Jamelia blends lived experience with evidence-based insight to deliver an experience that is visionary yet practical, inspiring yet actionable. Jamelia positions participants to leave with a renewed perspective and concrete strategies they can use immediately to create environments where all children thrive.

Service Description. What if the greatest barrier to children with neurodivergence isn’t their diagnosis, but the lens we use to see them? For too long, children with diverse minds have been measured against narrow standards and deficit-based models of “special needs.” The truth is: neurodiverse children are not exceptions to manage. They are central to reimagining what inclusive education must become. This keynote equips early years professionals to move beyond labels and compliance toward neuroinclusive practice that sees every child as capable, resourceful, and worthy of strategies that honour how they learn best. Through powerful stories, lived experience, and practitioner-relevant insights, Jamelia Gay invites participants to embrace micro shifts in daily practice that create macro change, positioning both children and educators for success in the future of learning.

Beyond Special Needs: The Future of Neuroinclusive Learning, presented by Jamelia Gay, challenges participants to reimagine how we see and support children with diverse minds. Too often, outdated deficit-based narratives define learners by their struggles instead of their strengths. Jamelia reframes the conversation through a neuroinclusive lens that promotes agency, belonging, and capacity as the foundation for positioning unique minds for success. Jamelia has collaborated with leading colleges, childcare networks, and school boards to design strategic learning experiences that leave a lasting impact. With over a decade of experience as an early childhood and post-secondary educator, neuroinclusive learning strategist, and funded researcher, Jamelia blends lived experience with evidence-based insight to deliver an experience that is visionary yet practical, inspiring yet actionable. Jamelia positions participants to leave with a renewed perspective and concrete strategies they can use immediately to create environments where all children thrive.

Service Description. What if the greatest barrier to children with neurodivergence isn’t their diagnosis, but the lens we use to see them? For too long, children with diverse minds have been measured against narrow standards and deficit-based models of “special needs.” The truth is: neurodiverse children are not exceptions to manage. They are central to reimagining what inclusive education must become. This keynote equips early years professionals to move beyond labels and compliance toward neuroinclusive practice that sees every child as capable, resourceful, and worthy of strategies that honour how they learn best. Through powerful stories, lived experience, and practitioner-relevant insights, Jamelia Gay invites participants to embrace micro shifts in daily practice that create macro change, positioning both children and educators for success in the future of learning.