Degrees: BA, Elmhurst College; MS, Boston University.
Ms. Abele's specialty is child language disorders. She worked with young adolescents
in the Burlington, Massachusetts public school system for sixteen years. She
currently consults and conducts workshops on topics concerning the inclusion
of special needs students in regular classroom settings with special emphasis
on children with pragmatic language deficits that interfere with successful
social communication. These children may be language/learning disabled, have
specific language impairments or have neuro-integrative deficits typical of
Asperger's Syndrome. In the Academic
Speech and Langauge Clinic at Sargent she supervises students who work with
groups of children, adolescents and adults with pragmatic language disorders.
She has developed a group therapy model for explicit teaching of the language
of social interaction. She leads training for professionals and parents in pragmatic
group instruction.
Ms. Abele is a member of the American Speech-Language-Hearing
Association and it's special interest division, the Division of Language
Learning and Education. She is also on the Greater Boston Reading Council of
the International Reading
Association and a member of the Asperger's Association of New England.
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