Ellen L. Obrock, M.S., CCC-SLP Education and Background Ellen received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech Pathology with minors in education and psychology from Augustana College, and a Master of Science from Eastern Illinois University, Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology. Her training for Clinical Fellowship was at the St. Louis State School and Hospital for Mentally Handicapped Adults, under the direction of Dr. Madge Skelly, a published authority on American Indian Gestural Code as a mode of communication for the nonverbal, nonlinguistic person. Over the course of her career as a Communication Specialist, she has: Provided early intervention at the Missouri Crippled Children Foundation, for children from St. Charles and Jefferson Counties in Missouri, Served as Department Chairperson at St. Louis County Hospital where she focused on head trauma rehabilitation. Her work with the patient encompassed the time they came into the ICU, to when they became outpatients, and working with them in their modified home environment, Experience as a speech pathologist in the public school setting, having served communities in Will, Adams, Pike and Brown Counties in Illinois, Most recently, she has served the mentally handicapped at the Mississippi Valley State School, and at Transitions of Western Illinois. She has continued her education at Western Illinois University, Dept. of Speech Pathology, and at the Speech Language and Hearing Conventions of Illinois, Missouri and Iowa. Professional memberships include the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association, the Missouri Speech-Language and Hearing Association, and the Illinois Speech-Language and Hearing Association, for which she has served on several state-wide committees. Ellen has researched avenues in which to combine her experience with music, her love of preschool age children, and her training as a communication specialist.