EATT
Equal Access to Technology Training
A project aimed at increasing computer literacy among people with vision impairments.
EATT is part funded under the
EU Leonardo da Vinci Programme
SIADV
Institut Montéclair
51, rue du Vallon
49000 ANGERS
FRANCE
Telephone +33 2 4173 3818
SIADV
CERADV
La Villeneuve Ste Odile
22640 PLENNEE JUGON
FRANCE
Telephone +33 2 96 31 82 87
Email:gleroux.siadv@monteclair.fr
The SIADV (Interregional Support Service for Visually Impaired Adults) was created in 1995 to help visually impaired people encountering job or training difficulties in the mainstream environment.
Its financing comes from the Agefiph, which is responsible for collecting employer contributions from those companies that have not met the required quota of 6% handicapped employees, as well as for redistributing these funds to support training and hiring of handicapped people.
To meet its responsibilities, the SIADV operates within a policy framework that no longer offers comprehensive care, but instead calls upon a network of closely-related specialists.
The SIADV's wide catchment area includes 20 French departments with about 8 million people. At its disposal is a staff who is frequently required to travel, as well as a certain number of other specialists who are needed on a temporary basis to carry out assessment of the person's functional visual possibilities.
The SIADV can only become involved upon request. These requests are made by non-specialist medical and social personnel and services, including doctors, Job Placement Councils (OIP) for the handicapped, social workers...
SIADV's assistance is enlisted by these organisations or services to finalise agreement on job placement, to oversee training courses in the mainstream environment, to adapt the workstation thanks to ergonomists specialised in visual impairment.
All other aspects (social, economic or administrative) are handled by other services.
This sharing of the workload is new to French visual impairment professionals but it offers key advantages : it is economically more efficient, it is more professionally coherent, it is more time efficient, and, naturally, it fosters the "integration" of the visually impaired people.
