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Elsa Abele, CCC, SLP
Elsa Abele is a speech language pathologist with special interest in Pragmatic Language Disorders, particularly as they affect social interaction. As a faculty member in the Autism Spectrum Disorders Certificate Program at Antioch New England, Elsa is committed to training professionals in working with persons who need to learn social communications skills in an explicit manner from a language perspective. She trains in school systems especially for children with Asperger Syndrome, High Functioning Autism, Non-verbal Learning Disabilities that inhibit their abilities to glean the underlying and unexpressed structural rules of conversation and narratives.
She has retired from her academic appointment at Boston University–Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences in the Program of Communications Sciences and Disorders. She maintains a relationship with Sargent where she does some work through the Boston University Rehabilitation Services. She has co-led groups for young adults with clinical psychologist Dr. Barbara Rosenn, Wellesley, Massachusetts, and has helped to launch a private practice with former graduate students that offer pragmatic language development work in Newton, Massachusetts.
Elsa was educated at Elmhurst College and at Boston University. She worked as a speech language pathologist in the Burlington, Massachusetts public schools for seventeen years before joining the Boston University faculty. She is a member of the American Speech Language Hearing Association, from which she holds her clinical certification, and its special interest division, the Division of Language Learning and Education. She is a board member of the Asperger Association of New England and its New Hampshire chapter.
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