Ellen Korin is a special educator with over 35 years of experience in public and private education and almost fifteen years working as a life skills coach with children and adults with organizational, motivational, executive functioning and autism spectrum disorders.  She has developed a protocol and set of interventions which have proven to be effective in helping persons on the spectrum to improve their quality of life.  In 2006 her interactive workbook entitled Asperger Syndrome An Owner's Manual was published. The second volume, for older adolescents and adults, is scheduled for publication in early 2007.

Retired in 2005 from the Lexington, MA public schools, she maintains an active consulting and coaching practice and speaks frequently at conferences including the Annual International CEC Convention in Salt Lake City (4/06), the Colorado Dept. of Education Conference on Autism (9/06), the Asperger Association of New England Conference(s) (10/2003-2006), the Portland (Maine) Public Schools Conference Series (2003-2005), Massachusetts Department of Education Lighthouse Grant Conferences (2002) , Technology 2000 National Conference (New York City). Ellen recently joined the faculty of Antioch University New England’s Graduate School of Applied Psychology where she will be teaching in their Graduate Certificate Program in Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Born and raised in New York City, she earned her Bachelor's degree at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. She pursued post graduate studies at Boston State College where she obtained a Masters in Special Education, and at many of the local Boston universities (Harvard Extension, Tufts, Lesley).  An avid reader and traveler, Ellen resides in Lexington, MA with her husband, Jonathan and her daughter, Alexandra.