Dr Neil Alexander-Passe is a school leader, a former SENDCO (Special educational needs and disabilities co-ordinator) and Assistant Head for primary and secondary schools in London. He is an 'Inclusion Expert' at the Department of Education (UK), and the author of 15 books focused on dyslexia and neurodiversity from a lived-experience, trauma, perspective and has published 12 peer-reviewed papers. He is on the academic boards of dyslexia charities in Australia, and on the editorial board of a dyslexia-based academic peer-reviewed journal in Singapore.