A beauty queen and mum to a non-verbal three-year-old has said her son is so intelligent for those who understand how he communicates.
Emma Powell - the first Welsh woman to win the Ms Great Britain title - said she would use her pageant platform over the next year to advocate for better inclusion of neurodivergent people, external.
"Becoming a mum [of a neurodivergent child] changed my outlook," the 31-year-old from Cardiff said of her son Leo, who was diagnosed with a speech and language disorder when he was two.
"My son can only say muma and dada," she said, adding that he instead has a rich vocabulary of gestures and is "emotionally intelligent".
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