Julia Berle

About Julia Berle

Julia is an experienced non-profit leader, a nationally certified interpreter for the deaf and a mother of three young children. Since the time of her oldest son’s diagnosis with autism in 2002, Julia has been working tirelessly in the fight to recover her son and other children from autism. She recently worked for two non-profit organizations to inform, educate and support families who have a child or children with this diagnosis. She is the founding coordinator for the greater Los Angeles, California chapter of Talk About Curing Autism (TACA), an organization that helps more than families nationwide. The mission of this organization is to provide emotional and informational support to parents of children with autism. TACA also provides tools that can be used to help these children. Julia is an international speaker on the subject of autism and has appeared in a variety of media outlets on the local, national and international levels. She is also a Parent Founder for the organization Generation Rescue, a non-profit group focused on funding and researching the causes and medical recovery options for autism.Most recently Julia received a counseling degree (LPC AND LCDC) from Southern Methodist University where she interned at Jewish Family Services for 4 months.

Experience

1. Wish Granter

   Make-A-Wish North Texas

   May 2018 — Present

Education

• Southern Methodist University

  Mental Health Counseling/Counselor

  2013 — 2017

• Boston College

  Elementary Education and Teaching

  1987 — 1989

• James Madison University

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist

  1989 — 1991