Terry was a single welfare mother of two teenagers when she decided to pursue a career that offered great promise and independence. Terry had family experience with the barriers facing disabled populations and saw the great potential of court reporting services for specifically the hearing-impaired. She learned more about the field from a friend and decided to enroll at Orleans Technical Institute's Court Reporting Program.

She excelled in the program and gained additional skills as an intern, where she assisted hearing-impaired college students by transcribing lectures via her steno machine and a monitor. This experience set off a light bulb for Terry.

After graduation, Terry earned money at a part-time job so that she could eventually start her own captioning business called VoicePrint, Inc., the first of its kind in the Philadelphia area. Her company works with schools to provide live, "in-person" technology that allows a student with hearing loss to participate fully in the classroom. Today, Terry teaches part-time at Orleans and her business is booming to the point that she can't find enough trained people to keep up with the demand.