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.
8:00-8:50 TASH Through the Decades: Empowering the Future to Preserve a Legacy of Advocacy and Inclusion Moderator: Diane Ryndak -Fred Spooner -Kathy Gee -Amanda Miller -Jessica Bacon
9:00-9:50 Navigating the Balance Between Teaching and Research Moderator: Peg Duffie -Natalie Andzik -Amy Andersen -Samantha Gross Toews
9:00-9:50 Networking, Ghosting, and Everything in Between Moderator: Sarah Hudler -Virginia Walker -Jessica McQueston -Magen Rooney-Kron -Debbie Taub
10:00-10:50 Thriving and Surviving: Essential Strategies for Navigating the Early Years in Academia and Beyond Moderator: Lindsay Athamanah -Kristin Burnette -Emily Malouf -Alison Zagona
10:00-10:50 Shifting the Model: Centering Disabled People in Teacher Education Moderator: Becca Heinze -Jen Newton
11:00-11:50 How to Research What you Really Care About Moderator: Andie Sweetman -Kristen Lansey -Grace Fransis -Andrea Ruppar -Jenny Kurth
Katie McCabe is an Assistant Professor in the Exceptional Education Department at Buffalo State University, with a Ph.D. in Special Education and a minor in Qualitative Research Methods from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A former special education teacher in rural Upstate New... Read More →
Dr. Natalie Andzik is an Associate Professor in the Department of Special and Early Education at Northern Illinois University. Natalie's research interest grew from her experiences as a special educator in California. There, she worked with students with mild to significant disabilities... Read More →
Assistant Professor, University of Missouri, St. Louis
Magen is an assistant professor of inclusive education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her research focuses on the inclusion of students with significant support needs in work-based learning experiences.
Professor, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Fred Spooner is Professor of Special Education at UNC Charlotte. Dr. Spooner has researched and written about instructional strategies for students with severe disabilities since the 1980s. Recently, he has focused on alternate assessment and linking both assessment and instruction... Read More →
Assistant Professor, Cal State University Northridge
Samantha Toews is an assistant professor at California State University Northridge in the Special Education Department. She was previously a special education teacher at WISH Charter School. Her research focusses teacher preparation and professional development to promote inclusive... Read More →
Assistant Professor, University of Kansas - Department of Special Education
I am a researcher and special education teacher educator, and I am passionate about advocating for inclusive educational experiences for students with extensive support needs.
Thursday December 5, 2024 8:00am - 12:00pm CST
4TH Floor - Imperial 5CHyatt Regency, 601 Loyola Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70113
