Programs in
Assistive Technology Education
for End-Users in Europe

Name of the organisation
    ASSOCIAÇAO PORTUGUESA DOS DEFICIENTES
    Delegaçao local de Angra Heroismo
Address
    Rua Professor Augusto Monjardino, 56
    ANGRA HEROISMO
    PORTUGAL
    Telephone: +351 95 628360
Key Person of the organisation
    Maria Manuela Azevedo Jorge Pacheco, president

An organisation of persons with disabilities, involved mainly in information/advice and public awareness raising. Educational activities (begun 5-10 years ago) are exclusively addressed to persons with disabilities. They also cover the issues of independent living and coping better with disability, as well as AT.

The educational activities carried out over the past 5 years can be classified as follows:

  • seminars, in the special form of a school, but no additional information is given;
  • information activities, in the most public forms, journals and periodicals and exhibitions;
  • activities addressed to the individual, peer counselling, information services, advocacy, addressed exclusively to persons with disabilities and the elderly.

No special information is given on the role played by AT in these initiatives, even if special importance seems to be devoted to communication, reading/writing and learning.

TRAINING COURSES AND SEMINARS
Title of the initiative
Typology
Year
Duration

(in hrs.)
Number partic.
Target
Number teachers
Escola - Ensino Bàsico

(School - Basic Course)

3-5
7
 pers. assistants
1

Given the special characteristics of this course, only some basic elements have been put in the questionnaire. For example the one teacher involved comes from the organisation itself and no selection of participants was done. The lessons took the form of lectures without hands-on sessions, but were supported by handouts for the participants.