About the Authors

Lauren Edwards is a freshman at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio which is where she was born and lived with her parents and two sisters.  She enjoys ballet and has taught ballet to young children for the past two years.  Lauren in majoring in Montessori Education and would like to teach elementary aged children at a Montessori school in the coming years.  Lauren chose the topic of full inclusion for this project because she feels it is important for her to know about issues involving education, as that is the field she is going into. You can read about Lauren in her literacy autobiography which summarizes her literary practices from birth until today.

Alyssa Sullivan is a freshman at Xavier University. Originally she is from Grosse Pointe, Michigan, where her parents and three younger siblings live. After working at various summer programs for special needs children, Alyssa decided to study early childhood special education, and after graduation hopes to be a special education teacher. Because the classes which Alyssa is taking for her major cover full inclusion, she wanted to learn more about the subject and found a perfect opportunity to do so with this assignment. You can learn more about her through her literacy autobiography, which details her education in literacy.