Forsaken Generation on with Julia Streeter Berle

Julia is an experienced non-profit leader, a nationally certified interpreter for the deaf, and is married with three 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.  After her son lost the diagnosis of autism in 2005, Julia helped to establish and work 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 45,000 families nationwide.  The mission of this organization is to provide emotional and informational support to parents of children with autism. She is also a Parent Founder of the organization Generation Rescue, a non-profit group focused on funding and researching the cause(s) and biomedical recovery options for autism. As a professionally certified interpreter for the deaf, Julia is hired by individuals, companies, hospitals, law firms and schools to provide interpreting services for deaf clients. She has worked as a staff interpreter for The League for the Hearing Impaired in Nashville, TN and most recently as an independent contractor.   Julia is a graduate of James Madison University where she earned a BS degree in Speech Language Pathology with a minor in Special Education.  She has a post graduate AA in Interpreting for the Deaf from Front Range Community College in Colorado. She also did post-graduate work at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC.  Julia received a Master’s of Science in Counseling at Southern Methodist University (2017).