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.
This session will present results of a comprehensive systematic review of practices in deafblindness. Studies were evaluated for method and evidence level based on What Works Clearinghouse (2022) criteria. Results indicate need for intervention studies conducted with increased rigor. An important purpose of research is the identification and dissemination of knowledge to positively affect student outcomes. It is essential that practitioners have access to information about practices that have an evidence-base supporting their effectiveness. However, within the field of deafblindness, there is currently limited research guiding practice which has resulted in the use of educational practices with no or limited research support for this population. The current systematic review is unique in that the purpose was to evaluate all identified existing intervention studies focused on children in the field of deafblindness for methodological soundness and for level of evidence.
