Our Team

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Marlena Campos,, M.S., PPS

Marlena is dually certified as a bilingual school psychologist and a mild/moderate educational specialist (RSP/SDC) who has been working in public schools for over 13 years. In addition to her years teaching and assessing students ages 0-22 years, she has extensive experience with the birth to 6 year old population.

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Kathleen Garcielita,, M.A., SLP/CCC

Kathleen is a licensed and credentialed speech/language pathologist with over 29 years experience in public school, private practice and university settings. Having extensive experience with intellectual disabilities, Kathleen has helped to develop programs within the public schools that provide services for individuals with severe disabilities. Additionally, she has developed and supported district level special education programs including speech and language, adapted physical education, augmentative and alternative communication, assistive technology, private school services, and preschool (0-6). Kathleen has provided clinical supervision in the public schools as well as university level and has considerable experience with advanced educational dispute resolution services.

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Linda McClain,, M.A., SLP/CCC

Linda is a licensed and credentialed speech/language pathologist with over 29 years’ experience in public school, private practice and university settings. She has specialized experience with the pre-school (ages 0-6) population including program development, assessment and direct services. Linda has also taught and provided clinical supervision at the university level. She has vast advocacy experience, representing both families and districts.

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Heather Mendelson,, EdD, PPS

Heather is a credentialed school psychologist with over 22 years of experience in all academic levels. She has extensive experience in high schools and understands the unique challenges it brings for special education programming within the A-G requirements for graduation and beyond. Recently she acquired her doctorate in Education Administration and spent five years at the district level supporting program development, legally sound procedural guidelines and professional development for the special education department.

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Aurora Morales,, M.A., SLP/CCC

Aurora is a bilingual, licensed and credentialed speech and language pathologist with more than 28 years of experience in public school, hospital and university settings. She is highly trained and experienced as a bilingual assessor in differentiating language disorders vs. language differences. Additionally, Aurora has extensive experience in providing direct therapeutic services at all ages and all disability populations including autism and intellectual disabilities.