Groundbreaking project Able to Include is seeking to break online barriers for people with intellectual disabilities by creating an open-source and context-aware accessibility layer.
Hundreds of thousands of children, young people, people with disabilities and mental health problems, older or homeless people still live segregated in closed institutions across the European Union (EU), suffering from the life-long impact of institutionalisation.
New research carried out by disability organisation Scope reveals that parents of disabled children suffer from stress and exhaustion due to the lack of emotional support.
Improving the world through passion and innovation might seem like a cliché, but it is exactly what partners in the Able to Include project are aiming to achieve.
The 1993 Criminal Law Act in Ireland criminalises sexual relations with people with intellectual disabilities outside of marriage. Inclusion Europe member Inclusion Ireland has called for this law to be changed so that it takes into account relationships for people with intellectual disabilities.
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution putting children at the centre of European Union legislation 25 years after the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UN CRC).
