APASCIDE  - ASOCIACIÓN ESPAÑOLA DE PADRES DE SORDOCIEGOS

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APASCIDE, is a non-profit nationwide association, and was set up in 1991, as a result of the  I Spanish Conference of Parents of Deafblind People.

  Our association arose from the need of making the government and the society in general, become aware of the uniqueness of deafblindness as a specific disability, so that they could give an answer to the difficulties and needs that families with deafblind sons and daughters have to confront.

 

APASCIDE started with 21 members. In its first years, with the help of some professionals, the activities were addressed to the knowledge in depth of deafblindness, the difficulties that it cause on our sons and daughters and on our families, ant the solutions that were being developed in other countries. 

      In 1997, the knowledge of the different solutions and the poor answer to our demands led us to a clear-cut change in our activities. There was a gradual increase in our services, without leaving our demanding attitude. We changed our management committee. We started then the publication of our bulletin, Apascide, launched our website, and organized the First Spanish Meeting of Families.

Our first contact with a Residential Centre for db people happened during the meeting of the EDbN, in the Voor Doven Institute.

  Since then, we have continued participating in meetings organized by DeafBlind International or by the European DeafBlind Network. Meanwhile, we started some programs that are continuing and that we hope to do so the following years.

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1. To break the isolation and solitude of the deafblind person.
2. To help the defblind people to live an independent, fruitful and integrated life in the society.
3. To articulate the search, creation and promotion of all intellectual and social actions that allow to cover their specific needs, improving the quality of life of deafblind people, by helping to their personal development.
4. Recognition of the disability by the Institutions with the consequent adoption of economical health, welfare and educational measures, as it comes from this specific recognition.
5. To promote the technical formation of personnel specialized to develop an educational, and welfare task, as much for the deafblind people as for his families.
6. To look for solutions the tutelary question respect to the son both in family and outside her.
7. To attend and to give support to families of the deafblind people.
8. To promote and to collaborate in the projects of specific education adapted to the necessities of each deafblind person.
9. To promote the creation of laboral, occupational and residential solutions.
10. To promote and to facilitate the benefit of services of guide-interpreters and "intervenors," who translate to their language the information of the world that surrounds them.
11. To make the society aware of the problems of deafblind people.

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Position	Location	Name	Date
Presidenta	Madrid	Dolores Romero Chacón	20/12/2003	e-mail
Vicepresidente	Barcelona	Ricard López i Manzano	30/04/2005	e-mail
Secretario	Madrid	Juan Carlos García Rubira	30/04/2005	e-mail
Vocal 1	Santander	Millán Criado González	20/12/2003
Vocal 2	Madrid	Maria Carmen Golderos	30/04/2005
Vocal 3	Madrid	Emilio Fuertes Cárdenas	20/12/2003
Vocal 4	A Coruña	Angela Pazo Diz	30/04/2005
Vocal 5	Ceuta	Mª Carmen Rosino Guerrero	20/12/2003
Vocal 6	Madrid	Carmen Cordero Gallardo	30/04/2005
Vocal 7	Madrid	Jacqueline Torres Correa	20/12/2003
Vocal 8	Barcelona	Petry Martínez Hernández	30/04/2005
Vocal 9	Toledo	Juan Antonio Martínez de la Casa	20/12/2003
Vocal 10	Teruel	Higinio Sánchez Soriano	30/04/2005

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