What Are You Doing for Lunch? by Mona Meighan Ed.D.

When a friend from Graduate School designed a “Baby’s First Year” perpetual calendar to hang above the changing table, Mona became its marketer and distributor as a way to help mothers tap into age-appropriate art and activities at every developmental stage of their baby’s first 365 days.

Taught new mothers to nurture their babies’ growth and have fun with them while changing diapers.

She and a friend began teaching computer classes to educators and children to help them get the technology out of the box. “Schools were buying computers and keeping them in boxes because nobody knew what to do with them,” Mona recalls.

Helped develop computer literacy in schools.

That was when she developed her nonprofit and named it Unified Creativity. Mona continued her graduate work until she received her masters and doctorate and was on university and college faculties where she helped graduate schools throughout the country develop Resource Programs for Learning Disabled students.Īfter giving birth to her three sons, she and her husband relocated to the northwest and she decided to not work full time with three children under five. She was determined to help her student and by the following school year she developed the first Resource Room model for Learning Disabled students in the state. After her first graduate class she realized he was not mentally retarded but was part of a new special education group labeled learning disabled. Mona thought she needed to take a class in special education so she could help her student who will be in her class until May. During her first year of teaching she had a student in her class who was waiting for his eighth birthday to be placed in a special class which was called then a class for mentally retarded students.

Mona began her career in Education as a second grade teacher in Sunflower, Kansas.

What Are You Doing for Lunch? by Mona Meighan Ed.D.