She is also a Clinical Supervisor in the Masters in Education: Adapted Curriculum Program. Prior to her position at the Deafblind Project, she was a Teacher of the Deafblind in the Deafblind Program at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, MA. She has her Master's in Education in Severe Special Needs, with a concentration in Deafblindness from Boston College. She was awarded the Helen Keller Fellowship in 2011 and the Sandra Davenport CHARGE Fellowship in 2019. She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in the Special Education and Disability Leadership Program at Virginia Commonwealth University. Ira's research interests include professional development for special education teachers and classroom paraprofessionals working with students with low-incidence disabilities.