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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
How to Teach Self-Advocacy

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After a generation of helicopter parents, who hover, and now lawnmower parents, who cut down all obstacles for their children, it's time for us to empower our children! This presentation will go over varying strategies to teach students with differing abilities on how to advocate for themselves in and out of the classroom. We will discuss how to give students the opportunity to advocate for themselves through real-life examples from students of all ages and abilities. This discussion will include tools on how to create moments in the classroom for self-advocacy and how to teach their peers respectful ways to encourage self-advocacy. Working with a low incidence field, I am able to use my background and current job to explain what I see that works and doesn't work today, what we should be focusing on, and what is next. It is important to empower our students or children, to teach them how to be confident and advocate for their needs.

Presenters
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Kayla Colburn

Education Specialist, California Deafblind Services
I am an education specialist for California Deafblind Services and am a strong advocate for inclusion. I have been a one on one aide, a teacher in primary and secondary school, and now an education specialist where I support teams with a child who is deafblind.


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