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.
Too often, the experience of disability has been narrated and mediated by the non-disabled. Online platforms have created space for autistic individuals that type to communicate to participate in the discourse community to share perspectives, comment on schooling experiences, and provide guidance -- narrating their own experience of autism. For the purpose of this consideration of discursive and ideological trends, we analyze blogs written by autistic individuals that type to communicate. What can analyzing online materials by autistic typers teach us about their experiences? And what are implications for a reimagined inclusive education that seeks not to reify ableism, but create space for neurodivergent communicators?
