Lourdes Quiñones is a Pediatric Physical Therapist with 20 years of clinical experience working with children and adults with an array of physical, developmental, and neurologic disorders in the school, home, and clinical settings. She holds a master's degree in Special Education, with emphasis on ASD & InD, from the University of South Florida (USF). She served as a Kg-1st Special Education teacher in Hillsborough County Public Schools system. Currently, Lourdes is the program coordinator for the Partnership for Effective Programs for Students with Autism (PEPSA) program, as well as an Early Childhood consultant at the Center for Autism and Related Disabilities (CARD) at USF, and a third-year Doctoral student at USF’s College of Education- majoring in Curriculum and Instruction with a concentration on Special Education. Her areas of research interest are arts & disabilities, Eco-arts, and arts-integration.