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Network Partner Conferences

 

AAIDD collaborates with national and international partners in offering state-of-the-art educational opportunities to the global disability community.  Best practices, new policy directions, and the latest research findings are presented through these exciting cooperative ventures.

Upcoming Partner Conferences      

021 TASH Conference - Virtual Edition Registration Now Open
December 1-5, 2021
This year's conference theme is Celebrating Community and Connections

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will host Building the Optimal Integrated System of Care for People with I/DD.
December 8, 10 & 14, 2021 from 1:00-4:00pm ET

This important conversation will take place on three afternoons, and is free, online, and open to the public.

IASSIDD 2022 Virtual Conference Registration Now Open
Thirteen full and half-day conference sessions are spread out over the entire year, beginning this January. This series of virtual events will cover a wide range of topics and will also provide an amazing opportunity to connect and network with other people in the intellectual disability sector.

 

Chapters & Regions

AAIDD Chapter and Regional conferences posted here, check back soon for the latest information!

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The National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities

The University of Delaware Leadership Institute 
AAIDD co-sponsored
The Institute, offered several times a year, offers a select group of future leaders from organizations the opportunity to come together with a fabulous faculty of national experts on progressive supports for people with disabilities. The Institute supports the development of skilled leaders who are passionate about quality, have the leadership, management and financial skills needed to run solid not-for-profit businesses and government agencies, are capable of assembling top-notch teams of caring staff, and have a solid commitment to progressive values that assured lives of meaning and impact for the individuals receiving support.
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Disability Policy Seminar

This annual event is jointly sponsored by The Arc of the United States, United Cerebral Palsy (UCP), American Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (AAIDD), Association of University Centers on Disabilities AUCD), National Association of Councils on Developmental Disabilities (NACDD), and Self Advocates Becoming Empowered (SABE).

Future Disability Policy Seminars
March 28-30, 2022
Renaissance Washington DC Downtown Hotel

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Reinventing Quality

Jointly sponsored by a consortium of partners, this bi-annual (every other year) event showcases best practices in person-centered supports from across the nation.  The next Reinventing Quality Conference will be held July 31- August 3, 2022
 
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Alliance for Full Participation (AFP)

Jointly sponsored by a consortium of national organizations including AAIDD, the first AFP conference was held September 22- 23, 2005. This first Summit's purpose was to bring together many voices from every state and every walk of life. A second Summit, Real Jobs--It's Everyone's Business, was held November17-19, 2011, to convene the leaders of the intellectual and developmental disabilities community to address the challenges and barriers facing increasing integrated employment for people with IDD.
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