Dr. Pesca is a licensed psychologist and a licensed and board certified behavior analyst (LBA, BCBA-D) who specializes in parenting, management of challenging and interfering behavior, and anxiety. in Psychology (Applied Behavior Analysis) from Binghamton University, and her Ph.D. in Learning Processes and Behavior Analysis from The Graduate School and University Center, CUNY. She has been working with individuals with autism and their families for 20 years, and has provided school-based consultation for numerous districts on Long Island for over 10 years. Dr. Pesca has worked with these districts to provide staff training and professional development, program development, behavioral assessment and intervention, and parent training and counseling. Dr. Pesca previously taught psychology at Queens College, and is currently an adjunct professor at St. She has experience conducting both basic and applied research, and has presented her findings at local, state, and national conferences. Dr. Pesca's experience in basic behavioral research surrounded emergent relations in stimulus classes, as well as stimulus control in conditional discrimination development. She has conducted applied research in response variability, prompt fading and differential reinforcement in students with autism, and classroom behavior management systems. She currently serves on NYSABA's Student Activities Committee.
