Enabling people to live healthy, productive, independent, and dignified lives, and to participate in education, the labour market and civic life

1. ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY:
Enabling people to live healthy, productive, independent, and dignified
lives, and to participate in education, the labour market and civic life
Claudia Salatino

2. UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with
Disabilities (2006)
PURPOSE:
“…to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights
and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect for
their inherent dignity…“
GENERAL PRINCIPLES:
“…Full and effective participation and inclusion in society…“
GENERAL OBLIGATIONS FOR SIGNATORIES:
- To undertake or promote research and development of universally designed goods,
services, equipment and facilities
- to undertake or promote research and development of... assistive technologies, ...
giving priority to technologies at an affordable cost
- to provide accessible information
- to promote the training of professionals and staff
- States Parties shall … develop and implement legislation and policies to implement
the Convention

3. With the mission to realize the obligations of the Convention on the Rights
of Persons with Disabilities towards increasing access to assistive
technology, acknowledging that Assistive Health Products
represent the “forth pillar” for global health
In 2014 World Health Organisation estabilished the
INITIATIVE GATE
(Global Cooperation on Assistive Health Technology)

4. ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY
Application of organized knowledge and skills related to
assistive products, including systems and services. Assistive
technology is a subset of health technology.
ASSISTIVE PRODUCTS
Maintain or improve an individual functioning and independence,
thereby promoting their well-being.
(World Health Organization, 2016)

5. Accessibility policies and AT policies and
interventions must be well coordinated:
Assistive products
Personal Assistance
Accessibility
Adaptations of the environments, products
and services to the persons
Adaptations of the
person to the
environment
Human help necessary to support living and inclusion in the
community, and to prevent isolation or segregation from the
community

6. AT policies and interventions must be well
coordinated with accessibility policies:
Assistive products
Personal Assistance
Accessibility
Someone who helps with
transfers and who places
the tablet on the rollator

7. ICF contextual factors: barriers or facilitators?
Environmental contextual factor
Performance (extent of participation) in an activity
barrier facilitator
Functioning
With an ICF perspective, Assistive Technologies are contextual factors
which, if proposed adequately, can be facilitators for the person, allowing
him/her to maintain or improve its functioning and to increase performance
in an activity.

8. Assistive products – ISO standard
(International Organization for Standardization)
ISO 9999:2016 - Assistive products for persons with disability —
Classification and terminology
Assistive product definition: any product (including devices, equipment,
instruments and software), especially produced or generally available, used by
or for persons with disability
— for participation,
— to protect, support, train, measure or substitute for body functions
/structures and activities, or
— to prevent impairments, activity limitations or participation restrictions

9. ISO EN 9999:2016 Assistive products classification
04 assistive products for measuring, supporting,
training or replacing body functions
05 assistive products for education and for
training in skills
06 orthoses and prostheses
09 assistive products for self-care
12 assistive products for activities and participation
relating to personal mobility and transportation
15 assistive products for domestic activities and
participation in domestic life >>>>>>>

10. 18 furnishings, fixtures and other assistive products for
supporting activities in human-made environments
22 assistive products for communication and
information management
24 assistive products for controlling, carrying,
moving and handling objects and devices
27 assistive products for controlling, adapting
or measuring elements of physical environments
28 assistive products for work activities and
participation in employment
30 assistive products for recreation and leisure
ISO EN 9999:2016 Assistive products classification

13. -> Raise awareness and reinforce interest on the topic of Assistive
Technology
-> Have exchanges on the latest developments in the field, good
practices and funding opportunities
-> Connect to possible partners for future projects and explore topics
for future EPR activities on the subject of AT
Aims of the event:

14. Thank you for your kind attention!!!
E-mail: csalatino@dongnocchi.it