The Thompson Policy Institute on Disability continued its advocacy with the ninth annual Summit on Disability and Inclusion, bringing together leading researchers and community partners to showcase best practices for cultivating a thriving and inclusive disability community. More than 500 people attended the summit at the Musco Center for the Arts, including educators, advocates, attorneys,
Tim Villegas of Think Inclusive approached us to be apart of his site by having us do the next podcast discussing the Disability Studies in Education website we developed for Chapman University. In this podcast we will be discussing the development of the website, the tenants of Disability Studies in Education (DSE), how we came to DSE as special educators, the application of DSE theory to practice in the special education field, and inclusion.
Ph.D. student Aja McKee, Audri Gomez, and Litzy Ruiz blog about their experience at the TASH conference (The Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps) in Chicago, Illinois