Elsa Abele, MS, CCC/SLP
Clinic Interests
Professor Abele's clinical interests are in:
language/learning disabilities in children and adults
educational models of speech therapy
pragmatic language deficits, especially as they impact social interaction
Asperger's Syndrome
developing effective social interaction groups
for children, adolescents and adults.
Current Research
Ms. Abele is working to improve the ways in which speech pathology graduate
students are taught diagnostic skills by developing the use of portfolio
assessment as a tool to monitor their education as they progress from the
diagnostic class to participating in diagnostic evaluations in our training
clinic (with Barbara Oppenheimer, CCC/SLP).

Last updated September 14, 2000 by DJA