TASH Amplified seeks to transform research and experience concerning inclusion and equity for people with disabilities into solutions people can use in their everyday lives.
Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities, 50 Year Retrospective Series Introduction
Season 5, Episode 1 — 28 August 2025 About this episode Today we begin a five-part series of episodes recognizing the 50th anniversary of Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (or RPSD). In this first episode of our podcast series Dr. Craig Kennedy, the editor of RPSD, introduces the series, explaining this year-long […]
14 Oct 2020
National Disability Employment Awareness Month: Alison Barkoff
This is the first in a series of podcasts in recognition of National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). TASH’s interim Executive Director, Serena Lowe talks with Alison Barkoff, the Director of Advocacy, Center for Public Representation. They have a wide-ranging discussion of employment policy and programs for people with disabilities, but Alison remains rooted throughout […]
8 Aug 2019
When Students are Segregated: A Study of Least Restrictive Environment Statements
We talk with Professors Jennifer Kurth and Andrea Ruppar, two of the six authors of the article, “Considerations in Placement Decisions for Students With Extensive Support Needs: An Analysis of LRE Statements” in the May 2019 issue of Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities (vol. 44, no. 1). They have collected a library of Individualized Education Plans (IEPs) and examined them to see how schools and educators decide to remove students from the general classroom, when supplementary services are offered to keep them in the classroom, and when they are withheld.
8 Oct 2018
Employee Retention in Competitive Integrated Employment for People with Disabilities
Carol Schall, Assistant Professor of Special Education and Disability Policy at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Director of Technical Assistance for the Virginia Commonwealth University Autism Center for Excellence, discusses her article, "Employees with Autism Spectrum Disorder Achieving Long-Term Employment Success: A Retrospective Review of Employment Retention and Intervention". It is one of a collection of articles in the September 2018 special issue of Research and Practice for Persons with Severe Disabilities dedicated to “Critical Issues in the Employment of Persons with Severe Disabilities”.
8 Aug 2017
The Individualized Education Program as a Living Document
Season 2, Episode 2 — 7 August 2017 About this episode In preparation for the return to school, the theme of the current issue of our membership magazine is “The Individualized Education Program as a living document”. We talk with Amy Toson, the guest editor of this issue, about what the IEP as a living […]
22 Jun 2017
How to Talk to Your Senator About Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act
Today's episode is particularly urgent. The Senate released its bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act and cut Medicaid this morning. Listen to it right away, then get busy. TASH talks with Gonzalo Martínez de Vedia, a Policy Manager with The Indivisible Project, about what this bill means and how you can talk to your Senator — Republican or Democrat — to effectively convey the importance for people with disabilities of it not passing.
28 Nov 2016
TASH Annual Conference Preview: Inclusion Means Diversity and Cultural Competency
Natalie Holdren discusses sessions she will be presenting at the Annual Conference addressing cultural and linguistic competency for school staff working with parents of diverse backgrounds on their students' Individualized Education Programs, how to make your TASH chapter more inclusive and tools to help people recognize their own cultural biases. This is a preview of the "Inclusion Means Diversity and Cultural Competency" symposium at the 2016 TASH Annual Conference.
27 Nov 2016
TASH Annual Conference Wednesday Workshop Preview: Faith and Inclusion
Mona Fuerstenau of Bethesda Lutheran Communities and Anthony Armitage of One-Classroom discuss a breadth of ways for faith communities to become agents for greater inclusion for people with disabilities, including advocating for inclusion in parochial schools, how faith communities can be networks of natural supports, and how places of worship can leverage their networks to help people with disabilities in areas such as employment. This is a preview of the "Faith and Inclusion: Embracing Inclusion for People with Disabilities in School and Community" Wednesday Workshop at the 2016 TASH Annual Conference.
10 Nov 2016
#CripTheVote and Online Disability Activism
We talk with Alice Wong and Andrew Pulrang about their numerous projects, most importantly #CripTheVote and the Disability Visibility Project. We discuss the election, the affordances of online collaboration and activism, intersectionality and disability, and the importance of culture, not just politics.
20 Oct 2016
From Angry Mom to Power Mom: The Parent Training and Information Centers and Your Child’s Individualized Education Program
Paula Wills and Michelle Phillips of Chicago's Family Resource Center on Disabilities discuss the services that are available through the Parent Training and Information Center to parents trying to navigate the education provisions of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Prior to being the Executive Director at the Family Resource Center on Disabilities, Michelle Phillips was a skeptical parent seeking help securing her son's educational rights. She explains her journey from Angry Mom to Power Mom with the help of her Parent Training and Information Center.
8 Jul 2016
Self-Advocacy and the Culture of Punk Music
Sean Gray, vocalist for the D.C. punk band Birth (Defects), talks with us on how the ethic of punk music affects his disability advocacy and his project, "Is This Venue Accessible", a crowd-source website to document the accessibility of places to hear music, first in the Northeast, but increasingly globally.
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