Mrs. Dasher has 31 years of special education experience, beginning with a teaching career that spanned two decades in the classroom setting at Pace High School in Pace, Florida. She also served as an autism consultant for Florida State University’s Center for Autism and Related Disabilities (CARD) from 2013-2021.

Mrs. Dasher earned her master’s (1995) and bachelor’s (1992) degrees in Special Education from the University of West Florida. In 2000, she was recognized as a National Board-Certified Teacher (NBCT) in the area of Exceptional Student Education. She earned her Behavior Analyst Board Certification (BCBA) in 2011.

During her years as a classroom teacher, she spent her summers working in related areas such as job coaching and curriculum building. Several of those summers she spent as an instructor and administrator at Autism Pensacola’s Kids for Camp program in Pensacola.