Marina speaks openly about her children who are both neurodiverse and who she has decided to home school as the education system wasn't working for them.

Following from her experience with her children, she wrote a book called called About Last Summer which stars a teenage girl with ADHD. This then led to her own diagnosis of ADHD.

Children’s books that feature neurodiverse main characters are the latest publishing trend, experts have said.

Publishers, which were previously reluctant to approach the subject, are increasingly seeking out realistic and explicitly neurodiverse protagonists, often by authors who are themselves neurodivergent.

In this talk, Marina Magdalena, founder of Imaginarium Academy, a International film & TV company, explores the power of online education. She discusses how meaningful human experiences, connections, and collaborations placed at the center stage of online learning can elevate our learning experiences.

I had an enjoyable catch up with Hugo Rifkind at Times Radio over the weekend. We chatted Antigone Kingsley, neurodiversity and ADHD girls! Catch the full Interview here.

My daughter was about five or six when I started to suspect she might have ADHD – it was based on things like her not being able to sleep at bedtime, being fidgety and hyperactive.

Teachers would say she was struggling to sit in her seat. It wasn’t a case of being disruptive or naughty, it was just a case of having too much inside her needing to get out.

When my dyslexic daughter first discovered Harry Potter, she went from a reluctant reader to a serious book lover overnight.

She would battle line by line to keep up with the story and would read a single page several times until she felt she understood. It was a triumph to see her engage with literature and fill her world with written words.