I am now very much retired from teaching children with deafness and/or other special needs.

My Fellowship in 2003 gave me the opportunity to research a very successful intervention for children with learning challenges in the United States. I was very inspired by their personalised learning programmes, allowing children to build on their personal weaknesses, be assured of their strengths, and within one academic year, have an almost guaranteed jump of two academic years in the year following.

Back in the UK, I initiated advertising and promotional literature. I made presentations to my teaching union, and to headteachers. I wrote an article for the National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT) magazine. Teachers were interested. Children enjoyed the opportunity to trial tests. Unfortunately, I did not have the time or the skills required to be able to attract the finance.

There are now more opportunities for entrepreneurial educators, passionate about equanimity within education to take up the baton. It still matters. The study and application of the structure of intellect in order to strengthen fundamental learning abilities turns failing children into confident, functioning adults with bright futures ahead.