About Us:  Our Staff

Pat Osbourn, M.A., CCC, CED, Project Director
Email: posbourn@salud.unm.edu 

As Project Director, Pat is responsible for overall project administration and curriculum development. Pat is a speech-language pathologist and a certified educational diagnostician and has over 20 years of experience in evaluation, developing goals and objectives for children with a variety of educational exceptionalities and in training others in assessment and goal setting. Pat maintains a core faculty position for the New Mexico LEND Program, an interdisciplinary leadership education program as well as an Adjunct Faculty Appointment at the Speech and Hearing Sciences Department at the University of New Mexico. (505) 272-0387.

Molly McLaughlin, OTR/L, Program Manager
Email: mcclaugh@salud.unm.edu

As Project Manager, Molly is responsible for daily management and coordination of the program. Molly is an occupational therapist that has 20 years of experience working with individuals, pediatric to geriatric, with physical disabilities.  (505) 272-4349.

Elisa Sanchez Wilkinson, Family Specialist
Email: elisasw@salud.unm.edu

As a Family Specialist, Elisa is responsible for developing and maintaining outreach programs and networking opportunities for parents and families of deaf/blind children and youth throughout the state of NM. As a parent of a child with deafblindnes, she provides a strong link for the Project to work closely with the families of NM with children and youth who are deaf/blind. She has 15 years of nursing experience working as a home health care nurse for medically fragile children, working with Deaf and Hard of Hearing children, working with medical records, and as a camp nurse for Easter Seals. (505) 272-8195

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