Description
Melena Blanton is a clinical psychologist and mom of two neurodivergent kids in Eastern Kentucky. She’s had to fight through lack of resources and small town prejudice to get her kids the help they need. That’s meant driving hours for evaluations, training as a tutor herself, and building a scrappy sisterhood of moms doing the impossible. This is what advocacy looks like when the system is broken.
For more on this topic:
Watch: First-generation parents, neurodivergent kids, and redefining excellence https://youtu.be/l3YdrcvWJKk?si=gnNHvYggQgM56lMa
Read: Barton System: What you need to know https://www.understood.org/en/articles/barton-reading-program-what-you-need-to-know
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