Colleen Tomko, parent of an adult son with Intellectual Disability and Autism (ID/A). Colleen has been involved in disability advocacy for 35 years, ranging from local and state committees, boards, and initiatives, to providing testimony at a US congressional hearing on special education funding. Her son was the first student with his level of needs to be fully included in their school district and to continue to work on his IEP goals on a college campus for his four transition years. She has worked with Parent to Parent of PA, Arcadia University Inclusion Institute and Include Me from the Start. She is president of Kids Together, Inc. and has an online store to promote inclusion called “The Parent Side.” She is currently a co-chair for PennTash.
