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Our Director and Founder
Renée M. Terrasi, Ph. D., BCBA-D
Dr. Terrasi grew up in Monroe Michigan.
From there she attended Defiance College in
Defiance Ohio, where she received her Bachelors Degree in Education and
Communications.
She then accepted a teaching position in Cape Coral. Dr. Terrasi taught
children with an array
of exceptionalities including; Autism, SED, LD and EMH. While teaching
she worked on her
Masters Degree in Special Education at FGCU. She then decided to stop
teaching
and attend Barry University full time as a doctorate student. Dr.
Terrasi received her PhD in
Educational Leadership and Exceptional Student Education and
certifications in Applied
Behavioral Analysis and Autism at the University of Massachusetts
Lowell. Dr. Terrasi's
dissertation is titled: Dolphin Assisted Therapy as a Verbal Operant
Condition for Children
with Autism. Dr. Terrasi is a Board
Certified Doctoral Behavioral Analyst.
Personal Experience
Dr. Renee Terrasi is the director and founder of Peace by Piece
(PXP). Her professional history providing services to persons
with autism and related disabilities began in 1997, as a teacher
in the Lee County Public Schools. Then in 2008 after receiving
her Ph. D in Educational Leadership and specialists in Special
Education from Barry University, her Autism Specialist
Certification from University of Massachusetts Lowell and became
a Board Certified Doctoral Behavior Analyst, she expanded her
services to better meet the needs the community by opening
PXP. Dr. Terrasi’s vision and mission for
PXP emanates from her
own lifelong struggle with a neurological disability, as well as
foster parent to a child with autism.
Dr. Terrasi not only has an array of
professional and educational experience but she also was a
foster parent to a six year old boy with autism and a hearing
impairment. This provided her
with what many professionals lack......... direct parental
responsibilities, twenty four hours a
day, and seven days a week! No book, course, or program would expect one
to voluntarily
partake in such an endeavor. It was during this time that she was able
to see how practical (or
impractical) educational theories were for a parent! It was also during
this time that she truly
experienced the lack of services and support offered to families.
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