Each year, the TASH Conference brings together our constituents 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 the millions of 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, Building Diverse and Inclusive Communities, reminds us that equity, opportunity, and inclusion relies on the input of broad perspectives and experiences.
California State University, Northridge has a long and impressive history of involvement in many different aspects of disability. In 1993, the University officially approved the creation of the Center on Disabilities (COD) to promote the valuable role that assistive technology (AT) can play in the accommodation of persons with disabilities in all environments including education, employment and independent living. The COD hosts the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference, the longest-running, largest and only university sponsored conference on technology and persons with disabilities. The CSUN Conference will be held March 9-13, 2020 at the Anaheim Marriott. The COD publishes the Journal on Technology and Persons with Disabilities from conference proceedings of sessions that were rigorously reviewed and expertly selected, in the area of science and research. Published annually, the journal offers academics and researchers a forum to highlight their work and cement their prominence in the AT field. Additionally, CSUN’s Center on Disabilities offers a variety of training opportunities, including one of the original certificate programs in the field of assistive technology. The Assistive Technology Applications Certificate Program (ATACP), offered online, provides practitioners tools and techniques of AT accommodations in meeting the needs of individuals with various disabilities in many settings. Other training opportunities include webinars hosted throughout the year on various topics in AT, and customized trainings where the COD works with an agency, company or organization to develop and host trainings based on their particular needs.
https://csun.edu/cod
