Elizabeth Biggs's schedule for 2024 TASH Conference

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!

Click on the "Registration and More" tab for additional information about our Conference location, registration, reserving a guest room, sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities, and more! The full Conference schedule is now available for viewing. Registered attendees will receive an invitation to log in and create a personalized schedule.

Elizabeth Biggs

Vanderbilt University

Assistant Professor

Nashville, Tennessee

About me

Elizabeth E. Biggs, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Special Education at Vanderbilt University and a member of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center. Her work focuses on promoting social, communication, language, and literacy outcomes for children and youth with autism, intellectual disability, and/or multiple disabilities who have complex communication needs. She is especially interested in supporting implementation of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) in natural environments, such as schools, with families, and in the community. At Vanderbilt, she teaches classes on general education access and literacy for students with complex support needs. She was the 2016 TASH award winner of the Alice H. Hayden Emerging Leader Award.