Lauren earned her Ed.D. in Autism and Intellectual Disability at Teachers College, Columbia University, where she also obtained her master’s degree in multiple and severe disabilities in 2012. She works as an adjunct assistant professor at Teachers College, Columbia, teaching coursework in the area of special education. She also works as an instructor at Hunter College in the severe and multiple disabilities program. Dr. Andersen-Miller has nine years of experience as a special education teacher in Long Beach Schools, first as a high school life skills teacher and currently as a self-contained elementary special education teacher. She has written a variety of publications over her career, including her most recent collaboration on a book chapter on post-secondary transition with Dr. Hsu-Ming Chiang in the textbook Systematically Treating Autism: A Clinician’s Guide for Empowering Families (2019). In 2018, she co-authored a book chapter in the textbook Curricula for Teaching Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Dr. Andersen-Miller has taught in-service classes to teachers in the Long Beach School District on transition and technology in the classroom. She also serves as a peer reviewer for various journals of special education and a scholarship reviewer for the Organization of Autism Research’s Schwallie Family Scholarship.
