Swedish
Research Institute for Disability Policy, HANDU AB, is a
research institute representing a high standard both in general professional
terms and in specific knowledge about persons with disabilities. HANDU
works with recognized methods and our basic principles are to provide and
obtain objective data. HANDU puts great emphasis on continued
development in the field of methodology how to reach all people according
to their very specific conditions. The Institute works with experience derived
from people with solid knowledge of issues pertaining to disabilities. HANDU
is using methods as for example personal-, telephone- or sign language
fieldwork, qualitative marketing research, social and opinion research,
Internet research, data processing, statistical analysis, omnibus surveys,
etceteras. Its findings form a reliable basis for decisions taken by municipal
county councils and state agencies as well as by private companies.
The Swedish Association of the Visually Impaired, the Swedish Federation
of Disabled Persons and the Swedish National Association of Deaf jointly
own HANDU AB.
The research institute HANDU started in 1995 and has been working with
disability issues in order to provide the society with information about people
with disabilities living conditions in a “hard fact-way” and make visible that
this group is a resource when decisions are taken. The three associations
above started HANDU. |
