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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, spurs our creative thinking, and focuses on healthy living and having fun!  Our conference theme, Feel the Power of Inclusion, reinforces the importance of our continued commitment to promoting a world of equity and opportunity for all, and is predicated on the value of bringing together diverse perspectives and experiences in an effort to build strong human connectivity and spur collective action.

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Sunday, December 6 • 2:30pm - 3:15pm
Peer Navigation Supporting Parents with Disabilities

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Parents with disabilities often are required to interact with professionals from child welfare and from service agencies. When they can be supported by other parents who experience disability either themselves or in their families, they quickly build trust and are strengthened in their belief in their ability as parents. This presentation describes 2 such successful programs, in VT and in Washington, DC, where parents were able to keep custody of their children. This presentation will also describe training available to accompany the use of Peer Supports with parents with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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Susan Yuan

President, The Association for Successful Parenting
I am the mother of a 45-year old man who has Angelman Syndrome and who types to communicate, with me as his primary facilitator. My academic field is Psychology, with emphasis on Family Support. In the past 2 decades, I have been very involved with advancing the rights of parents... Read More →
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Sunday December 6, 2020 2:30pm - 3:15pm EST
Virtual Platform Online
  Breakout Sessions, Track 2

Attendees (55)