APH Educational Research Staff: Terrie (Mary T). Terlau, Ph.D.
Adult Life Project Leader
E-mail: tterlau@aph.org
Joining APH in April of 2001, Terrie has a Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Kentucky. She has worked as a rehabilitation counselor at the Kentucky Department for the Blind and as a psychotherapist at the Ohio State University Counseling and Consultation Center. She has also done academic research.
As the Adult Life Project Leader, her work is focused on expanding communication networks between APH and adults who are visually impaired and on developing products that address specific occupational, recreational, social, Orientation and mobility, daily living, and transition needs of persons with visual impairments. She is currently working on product development in the areas of orientation and mobility, personal organization, pocket-sized braille writing materials, marking and labeling, and parenting.