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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.

Friday, December 3 • 11:00am - 11:45am
A Call for Dignity of Risk in Inclusive Postsecondary Education

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As inclusive postsecondary education (IPSE) programs emerge and expand across the United States, many young people with IDD have access to higher education for the first time. To support growth and identity development, students with IDD should have access to all aspects of college life. Furthermore, students with IDD should have the freedom to take emotional, physical, and intellectual risks relative to those of their peers without disabilities. In this session, we advocate for increased dignity of risk, present a model of dignity of risk in IPSE programming, and highlight five principles that might guide programs as they consider and assess risk.

Presenters
avatar for Chris Worth

Chris Worth

University of Missouri St. Louis
Chris Worth is a person with a disability, (cerebral palsy and other unseen disabilities) budding scholar, and PhD student in Teaching and Learning Processes at the University of Missouri St. Louis. Chris Worth is currently an Instructor for the SUCCEED Program at UMSL.  He has a... Read More →
avatar for Lindsay Athamanah

Lindsay Athamanah

Assistant Professor, University of Missouri - St. Louis
avatar for Jennifer Bumble

Jennifer Bumble

Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities
Jennifer Bumble is a researcher and community organizer at the Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities. She received her doctorate in special education from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. Her research and teaching focus on the transition from adolescence to... Read More →
avatar for April Regester

April Regester

Department Chair, Associate Professor - Inclusive Education, University of Missouri, St. Louis
avatar for Magen Rooney

Magen Rooney

Assistant Professor, University of Missouri- St. Louis
Magen is an assistant professor of inclusive education at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her research focuses on the inclusion of students with significant support needs in work-based learning experiences.


Friday December 3, 2021 11:00am - 11:45am EST
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