Jordan DeBrine MA, BCBA, Melissa Wintz-Dykstra MS, & Lisa Kalberg MA, LPCC The University of New Mexico’s Center for Development and Disability strives to support full belonging of people with disabilities and their families in their community. One of the CDD’s core values is partnership and collaboration that encourages capacity building within communities. So often, providers focus on how to teach individuals with disabilities the skills they will need in order to be included. A new project that we have been working on seeks to work with community organizations around the state in becoming more aware of diverse abilities, and […]
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Hi, we are the Sylvias! The one on the left is Sylvia Sarmiento, a speech and language pathologist and the one on the right is Sylvia Acosta, a psychologist. We work together in the Autism Spectrum Evaluation Clinic (ASEC) here at CDD. We are the bilingual team! We are fortunate to work with Spanish/English bilingual families all across the state of New Mexico. Our bilingual families are all very unique. Some families speak only Spanish at home. Their children get exposure to English (second language) later through therapy settings and/or school. Others families use both Spanish and English at home […]