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Welcome to the 2021 TASH Conference - Virtual Edition website!

Each year, the TASH Conference brings together individuals with significant disabilities and their allies 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 advocates, leaders, and subject matter experts from every corner of the disability community. Conference attendees play an important role in supporting individuals with significant disabilities to overcome various barriers in order to live their best lives. Central to this work is the premise that individuals reach their optimal potential only when they are given the opportunity to live, work and thrive across the lifespan in the same communities we are all members of. The Conference is intentionally designed to support the interests of professors and researchers from leading institutions; those involved in local, state, and federal governments and public policy; special and general educators, and school administrators; home and community-based service providers; students, family members, and most importantly, self-advocates with lived experience.

This year, while we are taking the Conference virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we believe that our unique approach to providing exceptional first-rate content and building strong community ties and connections across various stakeholders will yield an extraordinary event! We have taken extra steps to bring people closer together during these times, as well as to create an amazing virtual environment that expands our knowledge and spurs our creative thinking into action!  Our Conference theme, Celebrating Community and Connections, reminds us of the value of gathering together as a diverse community to advance equity, opportunity and inclusion for all!

Need technical assistance during the conference? Please email our support staff at helpdesk@tash.org.

The 2021 TASH Conference is dedicated to TASH co-founder, Dr. Lou Brown. Learn more about Lou’s impact and legacy to the disability rights movement here.

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Wednesday, December 1 • 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Let's Connect Informal Gatherings

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ATTENTION CONFERENCE ATTENDEES: Would you like to connect with some like-minded friends and colleagues from around the country during the Conference?  Then, be sure to add this virtual opportunity to your conference schedule and be part of one of the informal gatherings listed below:
  1. Self-Advocates: Facilitator: Tia Nelis
  2. Families & Siblings: Facilitators: Raquel Rosa, Stephanie Lanham
  3. Diversity & Social Impact: Facilitator: Natalie Holdren
  4. Inclusive Education: Facilitator: Facilitator: Jennifer Kurth
  5. Community Living: Facilitator: Jenny Lengyel
  6. NEW! Positive Behavioral Supports Network: Facilitator: LaQuita Montgomery
Presenters
avatar for Natalie Holdren, Ph.D.

Natalie Holdren, Ph.D.

Education Specialist Credential Coordinator at UC Santa Barbara's Gevirtz Graduate School of Education, UC Santa Barbara
Natalie Holdren, Ph.D., oversees the Education Specialist Credential Program at UC Santa Barbara and is an Educational Consultant for the PEPTI project (Partnerships for Effective Practices in Transition and Inclusion Project). Dr. Holdren has worked in the disability community for... Read More →
avatar for Jenny Lengyel

Jenny Lengyel

Executive Director, Total Living Concept
avatar for Tia Nelis

Tia Nelis

Self-Advocate Engagement Coordinator, TASH
avatar for Jennifer Kurth

Jennifer Kurth

Associate Professor, University of Kansas
Inclusive Education
avatar for LaQuita Spivey Montgomery

LaQuita Spivey Montgomery

LS Montgomery and Associates, Inc.
I’m a TASH board member and co-chair of the Diversity & Social Impact Committee. I’m also the current president of the Florida TASH chapter. I’ve been in the field for over 20 years working primarily in home and community settings. I’m a board certified behavior analyst and... Read More →
avatar for Raquel Rosa

Raquel Rosa

Rep Payee Program Analyst, National Disability Rights Network
Having grown up with several relatives with disabilities, including a brother with cerebral palsy, Raquel is personally and professionally invested in the disability advocacy movement. Her subject matter expertise includes intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD), supporting... Read More →

Wednesday December 1, 2021 6:30pm - 7:30pm EST
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