(Melissa Houser, MD, 8/23/2026) An excerpt from A Failure of Imagination: How the Healthcare System Fails Neurodivergent People—and What We’re Doing Instead. I’m a physician. That’s the only formal training I have. When I set out, I didn’t know how to…
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It Makes Cents: All Brains Belong
6/9/2026: Brooke Devine from NorthCountry Federal Credit Union interviews Dr. Mel Houser from All Brains Belong VT about community-centered, community-driven healthcare, employment support, and mutual aid. In this conversation, we cover All Brains Belong’s initiatives in response to broken systems…
Barre-Montpelier Times Argus: Montpelier physician opens doors to neurodivergence
(Peter Cobb, 8/19/2026) In August 2008, Melissa Houser was in line at a grocery store in New York City. The next thing she knew, she was face down on the floor. Later, she learned she had experienced a “syncope without…
A Failure of Imagination Book Launch
Join us for the launch of our book, A Failure of Imagination. Here are community celebrations in-person (Vermont) and virtual.
Barre-Montpelier Times Argus: All Brains Belong brings neurodivergent Vermonters together
(Isabelle Wightman, 5/12/2026) ust behind the city’s firehouse, an unassuming Victorian building holds a doctor’s office that reimagines what healthcare can look like for neurodivergent people. All Brains Belong, a nonprofit that offers primary care for 450 patients, has a…
Navigating Healthcare Systems: Dr. Mel Houser on Full-Tilt Parenting Podcast
12/23/2025: Debbie Reber interviews Dr. Mel Houser—family physician, autistic PDAer, and founder of All Brains Belong—about the realities of navigating healthcare systems with neurodivergent kids and teens. Mel shares how their clinical work and lived experience have revealed predictable patterns…
VT Digger: Providers try to keep telehealth available in Vermont, 4 weeks into a lapse in most Medicare reimbursements
(Olivia Gieger, 10/30/2025) Some clinicians and hospitals are betting on an extension of Medicare coverage for virtual care while others think creatively to cover the costs of care. For many of the patients served by the Montpelier community health clinic…
Montpelier Bridge: Medicare Telehealth Coverage Has Ended, Startling Those Who Had Relied on It
(Jenny Blair, 10/21/2025) Disabled and elderly Vermonters who use Medicare woke up Oct. 1 to a new medical care barrier. That day, Medicare stopped covering the cost of telehealth for medical visits. Instead of receiving care via videoconference, many of…
3rd Annual “Improving Autistic & ADHD Healthcare” Webinar
Autistic & ADHD adults often have multiple intertwined health conditions. The healthcare system often gets in the way of clinicians addressing multiple medical problems at a time. Yet by treating these intertwined medical conditions as separate, this may result in…
Melissa Andrews Trust Grant Expands Healthcare Access for Neurodivergent Vermonters as Healthcare Safety Nets Collapse
September 29, 2025 Montpelier, VT — As Vermont faces looming health insurance cuts and the end of Medicare telehealth coverage, All Brains Belong VT has been awarded a grant from the Melissa Andrews Trust to expand care for neurodivergent Vermonters with…