The Regional Secretariat for Labour and Social Solidarity, through the Azores Institute for Social Development (IDSA), promotes an exhibition to raise awareness and promote the access of people with special needs to new the technologies at Lagoa Secondary School, São Miguel Island, on June 5 from 9 AM to 4:30 PM.

Being addressed at students and teachers from that school, the exhibition presents support and accessibility products in the fields of information technology, augmentative and alternative communication, environmental control, food support, food preparation, hygiene and personal care. The public will have the opportunity to see and try these products.

The exhibition is held under the project TICA - Accessible Information and Communication Technologies and is organised by the Assessment and Information Resources Centre for Support and Accessibility Products (CRAIPAA).

TICa was born of a transnational partnership between the Azores Institute for Social Development, the Sociedad para la Promoción Insular de las Personas con Discapacidad (SINPROMI) and the Instituto Tecnologico y de Energias Renovables, SA. This initiative is intended to implement new technologies as tools that allow integration, providing equal opportunities for people with special needs due to disability and/or temporary or permanent disability.

The Assessment and Information Resources Centre for Support and Accessibility Products is a specialised structure that aims to promote information, assessment, research and intervention in the area of support, accessibility, augmentative and alternative communication products for people with special needs.

For this project, the IDSA counts on the support of Seara de Trigo Association and the partnership of the Regional Directorate for Science, Technology and Communications and the Atlantic Support Association for Machado-Joseph Patients.

After Lagoa, the itinerant exhibition promoted by CRAIPAA will travel to the municipality of Ponta Delgada later this month.