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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.

Thursday, December 2 • 6:14pm - 6:15pm
Parents as Partners: Supporting Students' Learning While at Home

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Helping families of students with significant disabilities during a time of increased distance learning involves providing ideas of how to support their child’s learning at home. This session will showcase a parent video series that was developed by the TIES Center and the National Center on Educational Outcomes (NCEO). The video series provides simple ways to support academics, communication, routines, math, reading, writing, and monitoring learning progress at home. Families and educators will find the videos useful as they collaborate together, especially when considering the IEP process, and supporting caregivers as critical “first teachers” of their child.

Presenters
avatar for Kristin Liu

Kristin Liu

Director/Assistant Director, TIES Center/NCEO
TIES Center: TIES Center is the national technical assistance center on inclusive practices and policies. Its purpose is to create sustainable changes in kindergarten-grade 8 school and district educational systems so that students with significant cognitive disabilities can fully... Read More →
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Jennifer Sommerness

Researcher, TIES Center
Jennifer Sommerness is a Researcher  with the TIES Center at the University of Minnesota. In this position, she develops resources and provides guidance and technical assistance at the state, district, and school levels to improve inclusion and engagement of students with significant... Read More →


Thursday December 2, 2021 6:14pm - 6:15pm EST
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