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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For too long, people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities have been burdened by low expectations, decreased opportunities and denied rights. This session will challenge people to answer the "stupid questions" people with IDD face every day, like "what makes you think you can do that?" "why do you want to work?" "how can you live and work independently?" The answers to all of them are: "Getting Past the Stupid Questions" will focus on Supported Decision-Making and how it can be the difference between a life of rights, inclusion, and progress and one of outside-imposed limitations and denials.
