Welcome to the official website for the 2024 TASH Conference!
Each year, the TASH Conference brings together our constituents to share resources and success stories, learn about field-driven best practices, and network within a community engaged in shared values. The Conference is attended by passionate leaders, experts, and advocates from every corner of the disability community. Conference attendees are influential in their fields and communities, and play an important role in the provision of services and supports for individuals and organizations around the world; and include professors and researchers from leading institutions; those involved in local, state, and federal governments and public policy; special and general educators, and school administrators; self-advocates, adult service providers; students, family members, and many others. This year’s conference theme is Celebrate Together: Let the Good Times Roll!
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The right to education in the least restrictive environment is at the foundation of IDEA. This research-based presentation examines how students with disabilities are losing this right and segregated through voucher programs. The study focused on three of the largest special needs voucher programs in the United States: those in Florida, Georgia and Ohio. These programs and the largest private special education schools within these states were found to be silent on the right to education in the LRE. Descriptions and analysis of how this occurs will show that special needs vouchers are manipulatively framed to undermine inclusive education. Neighborhood schooling and inclusion are rendered invisible and invalid through the “manipulative silences†of “choice†policy. This analysis draws connections between historical segregation, neoliberal ideology and the rhetoric of market choice. Implications regarding segregation, equity, and education policy will be discussed.
Through the principles of universal design and plain language communication, this presentation will share with participants strategies for communicating disability policy within one's faith community. Faith communities can be an essential support system for disabled people. Building disability policy knowledge in faith communities improves the quality of care faith-based direct service agencies provide. Faith communities can better support fellow members with disabilities in their community when they are informed on disability policy. Join Rev. Ben Bond who Co-Chairs the Interfaith Disability Advocacy Coalition in Washington DC. and Corey Himes, Policy Manager, who has been a long-time policy activist in the New Orleans community to learn how to effectively communicate disability policy in your faith community.
