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2016 TASH Conference

Each year, the TASH Conference strengthens the disability field by connecting attendees to innovative information and resources, facilitating connections between stakeholders within the disability movement, and helping attendees reignite their passion for an inclusive world. This year’s conference theme, “Gateway to Equity,” explores inclusive communities, schools, and workplaces that support people with disabilities, including those with complex support needs, in living a fair, just, and balanced life. Return to TASH website.

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Deborah DeFilippo

IPPI
Meriden, CT

8:15am CST

Where the Rubber Hits the Road: Building a Dynamic, First Rate Infrastructure to Support State Employment 1st Efforts Grand DLIMITED

8:30am CST

Building a grassroot movement for the second wave of the disability rights movement - taking strong advocates and making organizers Midway Suites ILIMITED Faith and Inclusion: Embracing Inclusion for People with Disabilities in School and Community Grand CLIMITED Real Life Outcomes: No Double Standards New York CentralFILLING

1:00pm CST

Employment Implementers, Solutions for Improved Employment Outcomes Grand D

2:30pm CST

Happiness: Fulfilling Life's Destiny Through Gainful Employment and Real Community Integration Grand DLIMITED Stop Making Assumptions of Ignorance Grand DLIMITED

4:30pm CST

Exhibit Hall Opens! Exhibit Hall A Couples Therapy Framework for Adult Couples with an Intellectual Disability Grand FLIMITED

5:30pm CST

TASH Awards and Opening Reception Exhibit HallLIMITED

8:00am CST

Exhibit Hall Exhibit Hall

8:20am CST

A Place at the Table: Self-Advocates on Boards and Systems'Change Initiatives Grand BLIMITED A Team Approach to Real Community Inclusion Regency CLIMITED

9:20am CST

Creating Community Lives Wabash CannonballLIMITED Creating Pathways to Employment & Community Integration Illinois CentralLIMITED Don't Judge Me: Understanding Invisible Disabilities Grand CLIMITED

10:20am CST

I'd have my own train; Conversations on Advocacy, [through] Communication, and Inclusion Wabash CannonballLIMITED Self Determination and Planning your own Life Conductor RoomLIMITED Self-advocate engagement in managed care program implementation; Access creates Equity Grand ALIMITED

11:20am CST

Opening General Session- Gateway to Equity I Grand F&E

1:30pm CST

Cultivating Potential: Discovering What Is Possible Grand BLIMITED Partnering with the Workforce System: Achieving Employment Outcomes through WIOA Illinois CentralLIMITED

2:30pm CST

Creating a Vision for Your Life Midway Suites ILIMITED

3:30pm CST

Transition to Independent Living Literature: Progress and Challenges Wabash CannonballLIMITED

7:00am CST

Association Breakfast and State of TASH Regency C

8:00am CST

Exhibit Hall Exhibit Hall

9:20am CST

Eradicating Bullying Illinois CentralLIMITED

10:20am CST

Issues in Healthcare Decision-making Issues in Healthcare Decision-making with People with Intellectual and Developmental DisabilitiesIssues in Healthcare Decision-making with People with Intellectual and Developmental... Illinois CentralLIMITED Love and Disability: Removing the Barriers Regency BLIMITED Making a Difference; Animal Assisted Instuction Regency ALIMITED

11:20am CST

Closing General Session- Gateway to Equity II Grand F&E

1:20pm CST

In Memoriam Event Grand F&ELIMITED

1:30pm CST

Scenes from Four Decades with People with Disabilities Regency BLIMITED Self-Advocates' Lives Matter: Transforming Rhetoric into Action Midway Suites IILIMITED Service Dogs in Schools: Legal, Educational, and Access Issues Grand BLIMITED Therapeutic Horseback Riding Incorporating Pivotal Response Treatment to Enhance Social Communication and Sensory Processing of Children with Autism Jeffersonian/KnickerbockerLIMITED

2:30pm CST

The Pathways to Careers Initiative - A Bridge to Community Integrated Employment Missouri PacificLIMITED The Relationship Between Quality of Staff and Quality of Life Grand CLIMITED

3:30pm CST

Using team building and evidence based strategies to facilitate inclusion for students with severe disabilities Midway Suites IIILIMITED