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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!

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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
Continuity of Learning for Children with Autism: Online Direct Instruction

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Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, students with disabilities have been receiving online instruction daily. Using the results of an experimental study, this presentation will offer strategies for teaching academic skills to students with autism who have extensive support needs in an online environment using direct instruction combined with virtual manipulatives.

Presenters
avatar for Gulnoza Yakubova

Gulnoza Yakubova

Assistant Professor, University of Maryland
Gulnoza Yakubova, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor in Special Education in the College of Education at the University of Maryland, College Park. Having received her Ph.D. in special education from Purdue University in 2013, Dr. Yakubova worked as an Assistant Professor at Duquesne... Read More →
avatar for Melissa Defayette

Melissa Defayette

Graduate Assistant
Hi there! I was a special education teacher for seven years, three of which were in elementary, with the remaing four in middle school. At my middle school, I had the opportunity to collaborate with Maryland Coalition for Inclusive Education (MCIE) to develop educational programs... Read More →


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