Speakers

Gareth has been involved in education for over 30 years. 

Gareth is the Educational Advisor for Studio III (www.studio3.org).  Previously he worked for 25 years in U.K. schools; 17 of which were as SENCo in a large, inclusive secondary school in the North West of England.  Gareth has extensive ‘front-line’ experience supporting schools, families and working directly with young people in the U.K. and abroad, particularly Chile, Dubai, Portugal, Gibraltar, Ireland and Scandinavia.

Gareth is Co-Founder of the LASER Approach, which fuses his critically acclaimed Saturation Model (Morewood, Humphrey & Symes, 2011) with Low Arousal approaches (McDonnell & Deveau, 2018) as part of a system-led model of inclusive practice. 

As a Visiting Lecturer Gareth had led and taught on Post-Graduate courses teaching non-adverse approaches supporting people with additional needs.