2024 TASH Conference: Full Schedule

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.

10:00am CST

Elevating Person-Centered: Intersectionality, Identity, and Inclusion

Thursday December 5, 2024 10:00am - 12:00pm CST

2ND Floor - Foster 1

When organizations conduct Person Centered Plans and approaches, they historically only focus on the individual's strengths and weaknesses, skills and abilities, and similar characteristics. But what are we missing? What other nuances and complexities are we leaving out? How are we developing and evolving the conversation and the work? This session will explore intersectionality and identity of the individual to fully embrace a Person-Centered Approach. There will be conversations in a world cafe style that will give participants the opportunity to have discussions on ideas and strategies to be more person-centered with a DEI lens.

Moderators

Wally Tablit

Thursday December 5, 2024 10:00am - 12:00pm CST
2ND Floor - Foster 1 Hyatt Regency, 601 Loyola Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70113

Day 1 Intensive Workshops

Primary Topic Diversity and Social Impact
Themes of Interest Person Centered Practice
Key Words Intersectionality, Diversity and inclusion

8:45am CST

Empowering Diverse Families and Students Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration for Inclusion

Saturday December 7, 2024 8:45am - 9:45am CST

3RD Floor - Ballroom: Celestin H

Promoting inclusion for students with extensive support needs, particularly those with disabilities from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, is crucial. Successful inclusion involves effective interdisciplinary collaboration among professionals and families. We interviewed professionals from diverse fields such as family advocacy, education, psychology, and speech-language pathology. These individuals participated in the Northern California LEND (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities) program, which aims to train leaders, educate community providers, and conduct research to promote systemic change. Participants have experience supporting a wide range of families and students as a collaborative team. Our goal was to identify factors contributing to successful inclusion for these families and students. We will focus on identifying facilitators and barriers to inclusion, and additional supports and training that professionals believe are necessary.

Presenters

Jean Gonsier-Gerdin

Professor, Teaching Credentials-Special Education, California State University, Sacramento

Gospel Kim

Baylor University

Saturday December 7, 2024 8:45am - 9:45am CST
3RD Floor - Ballroom: Celestin H Hyatt Regency, 601 Loyola Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70113

Breakout Sessions

Primary Topic Inclusive Education
Themes of Interest K-12 Education
Key Words Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Intersectionality, Linguistically and Culturally Diverse, Inclusive Education
Presentation Type Research

11:15am CST

Embracing Intersectionality and Advocating for Asset-Based Pedagogies in Special Education

Saturday December 7, 2024 11:15am - 12:15pm CST

4TH Floor - Imperial 5A

Intersectionality is defined as the ways in which multiple systems of oppression interact to impact individuals who have been marginalized across their multiple identity markers (Crenshaw, 1989). DisCrit (Annamma et al., 2013) centers the intersection of race and dis/ability, but this has only been minimally explored relative to individuals with IDD (Kover et al., in press), as research often equates the experiences of all individuals with IDD (Goethals et al., 2015). Similarly, many clinicians and practitioners overemphasize intellectual ability and underestimate how intersectionality shapes an individual's experiences across health, educational, and social domains (Kover et al., in press). This structured discussion will explore how integrating frameworks of asset-based framings (LÃ³pez, 2017), community cultural wealth (Yosso, 2005), and presumptions of competence into educational settings can be used to disrupt barriers and reimagine opportunities for students with IDD.

Presenters

Alison Wilhelm

Doctoral Student, University of Washington

Hello! I am a current doctoral student at the University of Washington in Special Education. I was previously a teacher in a variety of placements in Nashville, Tennessee. My interest areas include reading development, instruction, and family literacy practices. I am currently working... Read More →

Saturday December 7, 2024 11:15am - 12:15pm CST
4TH Floor - Imperial 5A Hyatt Regency, 601 Loyola Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70113

Breakout Sessions

Primary Topic Diversity and Social Impact
Themes of Interest Other
Key Words Intersectionality, Asset-Based Pedagogy, Inclusive Education
Presentation Type General