TN-NADD Conference 2020

John Weston, President of TN-NADD

Dear Friends,

It is time for The Annual 2020 TN-NADD Conference!  The organization is looking forward to hosting another conference with our friends, sponsors, and industry leaders. This year’s theme is “Creating Dignity of Choice: Walking the Tightrope Between Risks and Responsibilities”  The objective is to educate and empower attendees to increase knowledge that can directly impact the IDD community in their daily independent environments.

THIS year’s keynote speaker is Leslie Walker-Hirsch, President and C.E.O. of Trinity Services. who will speak on “How Did We Get Here? A Brief History of Sexuality and Intellectual Disability”.  Leslie Walker-Hirsch, IMEd, FAAIDD, is a Social Development and Sexuality Consultant.   She has been the driving force toward the final frontier for people with intellectual disabilities: Sexual Safety, Rights and Responsibilities. She is the co-creator of the CIRCLES ® Curriculum Series, a multimedia teaching tool designed especially to address the varied and unique learning styles of learners with intellectual limitations and developmental delays.

Please make plans to be with us on August 20, 2020

Leslie Walker-Hirsch, IMEd, FAAIDD, is a Social Development and Sexuality Consultant. She has been the driving force toward the final frontier for people with intellectual disabilities: Sexual Safety, Rights and Responsibilities.

She is the co-creator of the CIRCLES ® Curriculum Series, a multimedia teaching tool designed especially to address the varied and unique learning styles of learners with intellectual limitations and developmental delays. CIRCLES ® is also an App for Ipad and other tablets. Leslie recognized early on that individuals living an included lifestyle would require the same kind of information regarding social and sexual expression and safety that all the typical members of their communities already had, but that obtaining those skills would require a manner of presentation that was meaningful and understandable given the idiosyncratic learning styles of those with ID/D. She has written numerous articles both in print and electronically, an award winning book, The Facts of Life…And More, (also translated into Korean) that serves as a useful tool for families and professionals and as a text for graduate students at The University of New Mexico who are taking the one-of-a-kind course she designed and teaches on sexuality and intellectual disability. Leslie has trained and consulted to families experiencing ID/D as well as groups of professionals in nearly all of the 50 states and numerous foreign countries to help them to rethink their understanding of sexuality and how it interfaces with intellectual disability. She has been called as an expert witness in both the US and abroad to educate lawyers and jurors before they reach a verdict to convict or exonerate agencies or individuals in criminal and civil cases. Leslie produces and funds a free electronic video newsletter that currently circulates to nearly 1,000 subscribers, including all members of the AAIDD IN group on social and sexual concerns, that has developed as an outgrowth of the AAIDD Special Interest Group that she founded amidst much controversy. She is the recipient of the AAIDD “Service to the Field” award for 2018.

Ms. Walker-Hirsch serves on the Medical and Clinical Advisory Board of the National Down Syndrome Society. She has 3 grown children and lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico with her husband Bennett Hirsch and her dog Lobo!

We are using CEU Helper this year for digital CEU collection. Please read instructions below.

If would like to be able to easily track CEUs on your mobile/tablet device, please visit https://ceuhelper.com/info to sign up for an account and download the app. CEUHelper  is a web/mobile application for obtaining and tracking CEUs.

**Note: Internet connection will be provided by the conference; and, CEUHelper will work offline for the duration of the conference. Just join the conference at home before you arrive. CEUHelper is not responsible for data charges you may incur while using the service. Use airplane mode to stop the app from using data plans.

(This video is also available in the app and on our website at https://ceuhelper.com/info)

If you have a CEUHelper account, then check your conference receipt after registering to make sure you paid for CEUs. If you have paid, you are ready to start collecting CEUs. 

Optional (for non-CEUHelper attendees):
To check your CEUs throughout the conference, visit https://ceuhelper.com/login and under “Temporary User”, choose your conference and enter your email address to log in. You can rate events or report errors on that page. Please note that there may be a delay between attending an event and seeing your event appear on this screen. Please wait at least 24 hours before reporting an error.

Thursday August 20