The 2005 TASH Conference titled, The Heart of TASH: 30 years and still beating strong Equity Inclusion Opportunity, is being held in Milwaukee, WI at the Midwest Airlines Center. There are approximately 400 breakout sessions as part of the TASH Annual Conference. Some topic areas to be covered include:

• Accessing General Education
• Accessing General Education Specific Strategies for K-12
• Changing Attitudes/Values
• Curriculum Modification
• Early Childhood
• Education-Self-Determination, Systems Change, Alternate Assessment
• Eliminating Aversive Interventions, Restraints, and Seclusion Employment
• Family Support
• Inclusive Education in Urban Settings
• Individualized Supports in Community Living
• International Inclusion
• Literacy
• Many Faces of Self-Advocacy
• Peer Supports
• People of Color with Significant Disabilities
• Postsecondary Education

For information about registration and conference location visit the TASH web site.

The National Worker's Compensation and Disability Conference offers a comprehensive list of programs targeting individuals who work in the field of worker's compensation or disability management. This conference is sponsored by LRP Publications Pre-conference sessions are offered with a more intensive study of topics related to the ADA, Worker's Compensation and Disability Management. Over 30 sessions are offered across a variety of tracks including Claims Management, Disability Management, Legal/Regulatory Issues and Safety & Ergonomics.

This conference titled, "A Meaningful Place for All," will bring the disability and service communities together to: Celebrate and reflect upon 10 years of disability inclusion in national service, strategize about practices to improve the inclusion of individuals with disabilities in national service and build practices to ensure ongoing progress.

For more information, contact the National Service Inclusion Project at nsip@umb.edu or 888/491-0326 (Toll-free V/TTY).

Save the Date: The 2006 ADA Symposium will be held April 10-12, 2006 in St. Louis, Missouri. More information will be available soon. If questions please contact the Great Lakes Center at (800) 949-4232 (V/TTY) or via our online contact form.

The Keynote speakers for this event are Robin Jones Director of the Great Lakes ADA and Accessible Information Technology Center and an Instructor in the Department of Disability and Human Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Gregory G. Brooker, U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Attorney's Office, Assistant United States Attorney, District of Minnesota.

This session will highlight employment's emerging issues and trends as well as recent and pertinent Supreme Court decisions and how these decisions impact Title I of the ADA; nuts and bolts of public services and public accommodations and what to do on a day to day basis to comply with these regulations as well as Title II & III emerging issues and trends.

Location: The Sheraton Minneapolis West, 12201 Ridgedale Drive, Minnetonka, MN 55305, for directions please call 952-593-0000.

If you questions, please contact Cindy Tarshish, 651-603-2015,
1-888-845-4595 (Toll free), 651-603-2001 (TTY), or
Cindyt@mcil-mn.org.
Registrations are due by October 17.