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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.

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Thursday, December 2 • 1:15pm - 2:00pm
Addressing Equity for People with I/DD: Healthy Relationships Matter

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Every 73 seconds someone in the US is sexually assaulted (RAINN, 2021). People with I/DD are 4 to 7 times more likely to experience sexual assault than people without disabilities (Shapiro, 2018). Enhancing skills regarding healthy and unhealthy relationships is a strategy to reduce the risk of sexual assault. Many people with I/DD are not afforded the same opportunities and access to sex education and information about healthy and unhealthy relationships. The Louisiana DD Council and Team Dynamics, LLC partnered to address this inequity for people with I/DD.
Presenters
avatar for Sharon Delvisco (she/her), DSW, LMSW, CGMP

Sharon Delvisco (she/her), DSW, LMSW, CGMP

Project Director, Team Dynamics, LLC
Sharon Delvisco has over 30 years of experience planning meetings, conferences, facilitating retreats, providing training and education. She is currently employed as an Event Planning Associate and Project Director for Team Dynamics, LLC in Louisiana. She has received the Mentorship... Read More →
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Rebecca Mandal-Blasio

Team Dynamics
Dr. Rebecca Mandal-Blasio is AST’s Senior Clinical Director in Louisiana. She leads a team of Supervisors and Behavior Interventionists serving families in and around New Orleans. A Louisiana native, Dr. Mandal-Blasio received her Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Southern... Read More →

Thursday December 2, 2021 1:15pm - 2:00pm EST
Online Platform
  Breakout Sessions

Attendees (53)