December 2024

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Sight Tech Global

(2 days)

Shaping New Technologies to Create a More Accessible World for People with Blindness and Visual Impairments. Sight Tech Global is the first global, virtual conference dedicated to fostering discussion among technology pioneers on how rapid advances in AI and related technologies will fundamentally alter the landscape of assistive technology and accessibility.

https://sighttechglobal.com

RPC Meeting: Ripples from the Rain - Traumas Visible and Invisible

Hilton St. Charles Hotel333 St Charles AveNew OrleansLA70130

Come join in the Big Easy for some fun and a hard look through a policy lens for the Regional Policy Meeting Ripples from the Rain: Traumas Visible and Invisible. Featured speakers include national experts on military trauma, overcoming substance use disorder and homelessness, preventing suicide in teens, states response to national disasters, and how MHA affiliates are aiding their communities after national disasters and school shootings. This meeting will coincide with the Council of State Governments and will including a breakfast honoring state legislative mental health and substance use disorder champions. 

https://mhanational.org/events/rpc-meeting-ripples-from-rain

2024 TASH Conference

(3 days) Hyatt Regency New Orleans601 Loyola AvenueNew OrleansLA70113

Each year, the TASH Conference brings together attendees 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 leaders, experts, and advocates from every corner of the disability community. Conference attendees are influential in their fields and communities, and play an important role in the provision of services and supports for individuals and organizations around the world; and include professors and researchers from leading institutions; those involved in local, state, and federal governments and public policy; special and general educators, and school administrators; self-advocates, adult service providers; students, family members, and many others. This year’s conference theme is Celebrate Together: Let the Good Times Roll!

https://tash.org/2024tash/

2024 ASHA Convention

(3 days) Seattle Convention Center705 Pike StreetSeattleWA98101

The ASHA Convention is one of the largest professional development events for audiologists; speech-language pathologists; speech, language, and hearing scientists; and speech-language pathology and audiology assistants. Bringing together approximately 15,000 attendees, the annual Convention offers more than 2,500 sessions eligible for ASHA continuing education credit covering the latest research, clinical skills, and techniques in communication sciences and disorders.

https://convention.asha.org

Understanding the Higher Education Civil Rights Landscape: Section 504, ADA, Title IX, and Title VI

Colleges are governed by federal, state, and local civil rights laws, including Section 504, ADA, Title IX, and Title VI that prohibit discrimination on the bases of many protected classes, including as disability, sex, gender identity/expression, sexual orientation, race, color, national origin, shared ancestry and ethnic characteristics. Join three former U.S. Dept. of Education Office for Civil Rights (OCR) attorneys who now lead university civil rights offices, in discussing the overlap between these laws and their processes. This webinar will cover an overview of key civil rights issues, such as the impact of new Title IX and/or Section 504 regulations, navigating civil rights conduct processes, pregnancy accommodations, how to engage your campus’ bias response or threat processes, and how to build and sustain relationships between disability services and civil rights/equity offices. The presenters will engage in interactive conversations using case studies, share best practices, and provide practical tools.

https://www.ahead.org/events-programming/webinars/2024-fall-webinar-series

Section 504 and Public Schools: Creating Access, Removing Barriers

Section 504 is an important antidiscrimination disability civil rights law. This webinar focuses on how this law is implemented in schools, how to ensure schools develop a 504 plan for eligible students that meets the purpose and intent of the law, that it is individualized to provide equal access to educational opportunity, and what to do if problems arise.

https://dredf.org/event/section-504-and-public-schools-creating-access-removing-barriers/

State of the States in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Webinar viewers will learn about the State of the States in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities project, an ongoing data project that began in 1982 and tracks 40 years of public spending and program trends for intellectual and developmental disabilities services across all U.S. states and territories.
 

https://www.aaidd.org/education/webinars/register-for-upcoming-webinars/2024/12/11/default...

Maintaining independence throughout the lifespan with the use of assistive technology

Duchenne muscular dystrophy(DMD) is one of the most severe forms of inherited muscular dystrophies. As the disease progresses boys lose the ability to ambulate and are unable to perform activities of daily living. Throughout the lifespan not only does their body change but also the need for different types of assistive technology. The challenge is that many families and their medical providers are unaware of the assistive technology available and how to access it. This presentation will present the assistive technology that can be used, when to initiate use, and how to help patients gain access to the tools available to maintain quality of life throughout the lifespan.

https://www.resna.org/Events/Events-Calendar/webinar-maintaining-independence-throughout-t...

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