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Comprehensive hotel accessibility strategy
The strategy includes training courses for all hotel staff, a dedicated Accessibility Director, and a 135-point checklist of accessibility features. This "Accessibility Standard" was drawn up by following the route taken by guests from the car park and through the hotel, and with input from guests, disability organizations, and hotel staff.
Scandic Hotels, Sweden -
Personal Ombudsmen Enhance Self-Determination
Personal ombudsmen (POs) assist individuals with psychosocial disabilities in taking control of their own situation. In 2017 the organization employed a self-determination coordinator (referred to as a BISAM) charged with working alongside POs in group homes; and in that year the POs served more than 600 people.
PO Skåne - Personal ombudsman in Skåne, Sweden -
Study circles for persons with intellectual disabilities to engage in voting
Small study circle groups learn from easy-read materials and DAISY-formatted audio texts that describe Swedish democracy and the voting process. A group leader assists by fielding questions to politicians and arranging discussions. For the 2018 election there were 109 study circles, totalling some 650 people in 80 municipalities.
SV Study Association Vuxenskolan, My choice/My election, Sweden -
Study circles supporting persons with intellectual disabilities in political processes
Via ‘study circles’ Studieforbundet Vuxenskolan (SV) from Sweden makes it easier for people with intellectual disabilities to access political processes. SV has also created a process that allows voters with disabilities to address questions important to them to political representatives.
SV Study Association Vuxenskolan, My choice/My election, Sweden