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TASH Policy Priorities

TASH’s Policy Priorities align with our mission to advance equity, opportunity and inclusion for people with disabilities, with a focus on those with the most significant support needs, in the areas of education, employment, and community living through advocacy, research, and practice.

Inclusive Education

Transform school communities to advance inclusion, where all students are presumed competent, fully participate and learn alongside their same age peers in general education instruction based on the general education curriculum and experience reciprocal social relationships.

For more, see TASH’s Position Statement with Policy Recommendations on Inclusive Education.

Employment

Increase the employment rate for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities through competitive, integrated employment, and eliminate federally sanctioned sub-minimum wages.

For more, see TASH’s Position Statement with Policy Recommendations on Competitive Integrated Employment and Optimal Socioeconomic Advancement.

Community Living

Expand the provision of person-centered, long term services and supports, and individualized choice for community living for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in every state.

For more, see TASH’s Position Statement with Policy Recommendations on Community Living.

TASH also has a position statement on Guardianship and Supported Decision making and resolutions on numerous topics, including our opposition to aversive interventions such as the use of seclusion and restraints in schools.

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Develops TASH’s annual national agenda including the development of policy positions, strategies, and advocacy outreach; creates initiatives for engaging and building grassroots support for promoting TASH’s national agenda; provides analyses of federal and state legislative initiatives; develops strategies to elevate and TASH’s policy positions with Congress, federal and state agencies; and provides analyses of federal legislative initiatives.

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