Elizabeth Biggs

Elizabeth E. Biggs, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Special Education at Vanderbilt University and a member of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center. She focuses her research on promoting outcomes for students who use or need augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), particularly across the areas of language, literacy, and peer engagement and relationships. Dr. Biggs started her career as an elementary special education teacher on the Navajo Nation in rural New Mexico and has extensive experience working with autism, intellectual disability, and other developmental disabilities who use or need AAC. She has published over 55 research articles and book chapters as an early career researcher, and she was also the recipient of early career research awards from the Association of University Centers on Disabilities (AUCD) and TASH. At Vanderbilt, she teaches undergraduate and graduate classes related to inclusive education, general education access, and literacy for students with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

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