James Fraser is a specialist mentor and study skills practitioner supporting neurodivergent university students, and the founder of All Minds Support.

Based in the UK, James has supported neurodivergent and disabled university students for more than a decade through the Disabled Students' Allowance (DSA). His background spans psychology, education and professional music, and his practice combines academic strategy with a relational, strengths-based approach.

His interest in inclusive learning began much earlier, during five years teaching music with young people with profound and multiple learning disabilities, complex physical needs, autism and communication differences. That work challenged conventional ideas about teaching and gradually shifted his practice towards listening, learner agency, co-regulation and creating environments in which people can participate on their own terms.

Those ideas continued to develop through his work in higher education and eventually became the Five Human Technologies of Inclusive Support. James presented the framework at AMPS Pedagogy 2025; his paper, Beyond Accommodations: Trust, Trauma, and the Human Technologies of Learning Support, is now published in the peer-reviewed AMPS Proceedings Series.

In one-to-one support, the theory remains practical: sessions focus on regulation, structure, academic strategy and collaborative problem-solving — helping students develop approaches that work with their own ways of thinking rather than forcing themselves into somebody else's.

James is a member of the Dyslexia Guild (ADG) and works in line with current NMH and DSA guidance.

Outside of his mentoring practice, he remains involved in music and creative work, exploring the relationship between sound, attention, and learning.