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Professor Debora Elijah is a highly esteemed cognitive neuropsychologist, practising privately at the Elijah Social Cognitive Skills Centre in North London. Professor Elijah attends to a range of age groups from 20 months old to young adults, specialising in building social communication skills, ASD, ADHD, self-regulation and anxiety. She is renowned for her holistic approach, treating everyone as an individual, offering treatment that is tailored specifically to that individual.
Professor Elijah graduated with a degree in neuropsychology from University Louvain La Nueve before studying and completing her PhD in Clinical Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology and Educational Psychology at Fernando Pessoa University. She was trained by Theo Peeters, a Belgian neurolinguist at the Centre for Training in Autism in Antwerp, Belgium. In Antwerp, she was the Joint Director of Tikvatenu, a centre for social communication skills. She also spent time in Brazil conducting research into structured and non-structured environments for autistic children and children with communication disorders, which was supported by the Brazilian Government. At the same time, she was a founder of CIAPEMA, a centre of research and intervention for young high functioning children with autism and related communication disorders.
She was also a lead researcher in the Process Cognitive Psychology group at the Pontifical Catholic University in Rio Grande do Sul.
Professor Elijah returned to the UK in 2000 and has since worked in her own private practice and for two different charities. She developed a programme called PROSCIG©, an intervention programme dealing with social perception, self-regulation and social problem-solving. She also works at Harley Street Family Centre as a cognitive neuropsychologist and HCPC registered educational consultant.
Her work has been globally recognised and she has appeared in numerous news articles. Her book The Social Cognitive Mind in Promoting Psychosocial Competences in the Peer Group was published in Portugal in 2014. Professor Elijah also received special mention in the book Autism: How To Raise A Happy Autistic Child by award-winning The Times journalist Jessie Hewitson.
Professor Elijah was appointed as Professor in 2020 of Autism Spectrum and Alternative Communication, as well as being a social sciences coordinator, delivering lectures in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Increased Alternative Communication Module at the Fernando Pessoa University.
The graduatecourse at The Fernando Pessoa University enables trainees to deepen and practice specific knowledge, allowing the development of competencies that favour effective and quality care to this population and their families, according to the international guidelines of evidence-based practice.
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Elijah Social Cognitive Skills Centre
North London, 997 Finchley Road, NW11 7HBMedical insurances accepted
Credentials
Professional experience
- 13 years of experience
- Cognitive Neuropsychologist, Director and Founder, Elijah Social Cognitive Skills Centre (present)
Subspecialties
- Social Communication Skills
- ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder)
Professional memberships
- HCPC
Education
- BSc Psychology (Honours), Fernando Pessoa University
- MA DEA - Neuropsychology, University Louvain La Nueve
Teaching posts
- Educational Consultant based in North West London
- Professor and coordinator of Social Sciences, University Fernando Pessoa, Porto (present)
Publications and conferences
- Elijah, D. (2019). The importance of friendship in improving the psychosocial skills of interaction and co- operation: effects of a social-cognitive intervention program on peer groups in school social networks (PROSCIG©). Journal of Global Research in Education and Social Science, 13(4), 121-132.
- Effectiveness of PROSCIG © intervention, in ME children in war conflict (2019)
Prizes and awards
- Winner for Children's Support Service of the Year, The Corporate Livewire London Prestige Awards 2019/20
- Winner for Biggest host contribution for Micro-Placement Programme 2017/18, City University
Languages spoken
- English
- Spanish
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