Bernadette LoPinto-Neil, MAeD is a Lead Infant and Early Childhood Consultant Specialist with the Center for Autism and Early Childhood Mental Health (CAECMH) at Montclair State University. She joined CAECMH May 2021. She is also a certified DIR Floortime provider and endorsed as an Infant Family Specialist through the NJ Association for Infant Mental Health.
Bernadette holds both a NJ Standard P-3 and TOSWD certificates and completed three consecutive years in the Intensive Fellowship in Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health at Montclair State University. She was formerly a preschool lead teacher in Head Start and public/community provider programs, a Early Childhood Movement and Music Specialist with Music for the Very Young in Trenton and a Special Educator providing Developmental Interventions through the New Jersey Early Intervention System. She has extensive experience delivering the Music Together curriculum in both preschool and parent-child class settings and contributed to the development of their preschool curriculum as their Preschool Coordinator.