The Education Success Project (TESP) • Global Summit on the Education of Individuals with Disabilities
Saturday, March 14, 2015
7:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Loyola Marymount University
University Hall
1 LMU Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90045
The Education Success Project (TESP) and its partners, including the Loyola Marymount University School of Education, will convene this Global Summit on March 14, 2015 at LMU in Los Angeles to celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and to carry on the work to enable these individuals to not only imagine, but to live the American Dream.
The TESP Global Summit on the Education of Individuals with Disabilities will assemble all stakeholders on a local, national, and international basis to reframe how society and educators view and teach students with disabilities. Instead of seeing disability as a deficit, the goal is to help all stakeholders to understand that disability is part of the human condition with both strengths and challenges.
Confirmed participants:• The Honorable Tony Coelho ’64, former United States Congressman from California, and primary sponsor of the Americans with Disabilities Act (Bio)
• The Honorable Judith Heumann, Special Advisor for International Disability Rights, U.S. Department of State (Bio)
• The Honorable Janet LaBreck, Commissioner, Rehabilitation Services Administration, U.S. Department of Education
• The Honorable Patricia A. Shiu, Director, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, U.S. Department of Labor (Bio)
• Prof. David Rodrigues, University of Lisbon
• Ide Tynan, Principal, St. Declan’s School, Dublin, Ireland
AND! In June 2014, Patrick Foraker graduated from St. James School, in Davis, California, where he attended and was fully included from kindergarten through eighth grade. Patrick’s mother wrote an article for Boston College’s Alumni Magazine C21. Here is the issue…on p.34 is the two page spread. Dear 8th Graders. a letter to his classmates 100 days before their graduation (click to view the article).
