She serves as PI on a research investigation establishing home-school partnerships to develop and implement preference-based routines. She received her PhD in August 2014 from Vanderbilt University while she was a fellow of the National Leadership Consortium in Sensory Disabilities. Prior to her doctoral work, Dr. Ivy completed an MS in Special Education for Students with Severe/Multiple Disabilities Including Deafblindness at Hunter College and was a classroom teacher at the Helen Keller School for the Blind. Her BS in Psychology was completed at the University of Kansas. Dr. Ivy’s research focuses on teaching interventions for communication and skill development for children with multiple disabilities and visual impairment.