The CID collects and analyses the needs of autonomy, communication, training and integration of people with disabilities.

It promotes the design and development of specific aids, highly customizable and specialized, in the information technology and communication fields, with particular disciplinary reference to curative pedagogics (ortopedagogics).

It produces educational software for non-disabled children that is also completely accessible to disabled children.

It advices and directly and indirectly support the realization of individual adaptations with which it seeks to promote:

- the autonomy,

- the communication,

- the learning,

- the integration and the life quality of people with disabilities. 

It's involved in the professional training of school and social operators in the universities of applied sciences (Supsi Dsass, Asp) and in the dissemination of a culture of comprehension and respect towards disabled people.

CID researchers

Projects 2008