She uses behavioral and neurophysiological (EEG) methods to examine word learning in typical and atypical children and adults. Specifically, Dr. Abel’s studies verb learning, as well as interactions between word learning and other linguistic domains in typically developing children and children with specific language impairment (SLI). Dr. Abel received her clinical training in Speech-Language Pathology from Vanderbilt University and her PhD from the interdisciplinary Child Language Doctoral Program at the University of Kansas. She completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Callier Center for Communication Disorders at the University of Texas at Dallas.