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!
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Through the principles of universal design and plain language communication, this presentation will share with participants strategies for communicating disability policy within one's faith community. Faith communities can be an essential support system for disabled people. Building disability policy knowledge in faith communities improves the quality of care faith-based direct service agencies provide. Faith communities can better support fellow members with disabilities in their community when they are informed on disability policy. Join Rev. Ben Bond who Co-Chairs the Interfaith Disability Advocacy Coalition in Washington DC. and Corey Himes, Policy Manager, who has been a long-time policy activist in the New Orleans community to learn how to effectively communicate disability policy in your faith community.
The words we use and allow our students to use matter. As teacher educators, we are preparing the next generation of educators, and they will impact thousands of K-12 students every year. This presentation will explore the nuanced role of language in shaping perceptions of students with disabilities and strategies for integrating disability representation into teacher preparation curricula. The presentation will review what two colleagues, including a disabled professor, at one Texas university are doing to change language and the perception of students with disabilities in coursework and with colleagues. Participants will gain actionable insights, learn updated disability-centered language, and examples of ways to cultivate a more inclusive and supportive environment where all students thrive.
