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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.
Thursday December 5, 2024 8:00am - 12:00pm CST
Early Career and Doctoral Student Pre-Conference


Katie McCabe: Introductions

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 Francis
-Andrea Ruppar
-Jenny Kurth

















Moderators
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Rebecca Heinze

University of Arizona
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Sarah Hudler

The Ohio State University
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Katie McCabe

Assistant Professor, Buffalo State University
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 →
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Diane Ryndak

Professor, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Presenters
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Jen Newton

Ohio University
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Grace Francis

Assistant Professor, Special Education, George Mason University
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Andrea Ruppar

The University of Wisconsin-Madison
I'm an Associate Professor of Special Education at University of Wisconsin-Madison. I study educational decision making for students with extensive support needs.
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Jennifer Kurth

Professor, University of Kansas
Inclusive Education
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Alison Zagona

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.
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Emily Malouf

Research Scholar, Vanderbilt University
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Kristen Lansey

Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
Kirsten Lansey (she/her), Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of special education. Her overarching goal is to conduct research, teaching, and service that contributes to systemic educational change so that students with complex support needs receive inclusive and equitable learning... Read More →
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Kristin Burnette

Assistant Professor, East Carolina University
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Fred Spooner

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 →
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Kathy Gee

Professor, California State University, Sacramento
inclusive education, meaningful access to core curriculum; augmentative communication; PBIS; elementary and secondary education; resaerch
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Jessica Bacon

Montclair State University
Thursday December 5, 2024 8:00am - 12:00pm CST
4TH Floor - Imperial 5D Hyatt Regency, 601 Loyola Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70113

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