CATALAN ASSOCIATION for DEAFBLIND PEOPLE – APSOCECAT
Declared of public utility and care institution. ISO 9001 certified
APSOCECAT is an entity formed by people with deafblindness of all ages, as well as for their families. With enthusiasm we encourage the best opportunities for people affected by this disability.
It is our mission to focus on the Administration and the civil society to adopt economic, welfare and educational measures to guarantee deafblind people full social rights in these areas:
- Access to communication and information, as well as support for mobility
- Promotion and defense of personal, physical and intellectual autonomy
- Access to adapted residential solutions and with specific professionals.
These are our purposes:
- Help deafblind people and their families manage day to day according to their needs
- Facilitate acces to resources and support services
- Facilitate the use of sign language and any other communicative system
- Manage the availability of guides-communicators and mediators in deafblindness
- Contribute to the formation of new generations of deafblind professionals
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El Partit Popular visita APSOCECAT per conèixer de prop la realitat de la sordceguesa a Catalunya
Representants del Partit Popular a Catalunya han visitat aquest matí la seu d’APSOCECAT. La trobada, impulsada a iniciativa de la formació política, ha tingut com a objectiu aprofundir en la situació actual de les persones amb sordceguesa i conèixer de primera mà la tasca que realitza l’entitat. Una realitat invisible de 37.000 persones Durant la reunió, s’han presentat les dades de l’estudi sociosanitari sobre la distribució territorial de la sordceguesa, elaborat per APSOCECAT juntament amb la FESOCE. Les xifres posen de manifest una realitat sovint desconeguda: a Catalunya hi viuen més de 37.000 persones amb sordceguesa, un col·lectiu on el 70% són dones i el 92% pertanyen a la tercera edat.