This year’s theme, “Celebrating 40 Years of Progressive Leadership,” acknowledges TASH’s 40 years of generating change within the disability community and anticipates a brighter, more inclusive future for people with disabilities in all aspects of life. Each year, the TASH Conference impacts 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.
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TASH has been a leader in inclusive schooling, yet children and youth with the most significant support needs, and often with specialized health care needs, are still taught in some of the most segregated programs. Sometimes school leaders, teachers, and family members inaccurately assume that these needs cannot be met within inclusive schools/classrooms. This presentation will provide collaborative strategies for coordinating related services as a support to inclusive education; and, strategies for integrating service delivery. Examples will be shared and perspectives from teachers, parents, and related service providers will be shared. OBJECTIVES: As a result of this session participants will be able to: 1. Understand how to write an integrated IEP which is developed by a collaborative team; 2. Understand how therapy can be integrated within and across the school day in functional and natural situations; 3. Gain insight into parent, educator, and therapy perspectives, and how these need to be collaboratively coordinated in an inclusive school.
