Lauren Sheehan brings over sixteen years experience as a special educator to help empower others. She is a passionate, creative and energetic educator! Lauren has extensive experience teaching learners with complex learning profiles, including augmentative and alternative communication users, alternative access and positioning needs, comprehensive literacy instruction and assistive technology. Lauren works in the public school system as a special educator and an inclusion facilitator. She also works as an adjunct faculty member teaching and mentoring future educators and is a RESNA certified assistive technology professional. Lauren has supported school districts by leading professional development on curriculum, evidence-based instruction practices and comprehensive literacy instruction.  She has presented on topics in the field of education, special education, literacy instruction and assistive technology at statewide and national conferences