In 2006, the Foundation piloted an action line seeking to improve the access of schools to available assistive technology. This action called Punto Acca has two complementary elements.

The first aspect is the creation of a “call-centre” type of reference point for schools to contact in order to identify available assistive technology to help the scholastic integration of particular disabled students.

In this activity, the collaboration with the Istituto Leonarda Vaccari di Roma (Ausilioteca) is central, since this organization possesses a “catalogue” of assistive technologies (especially for cognitive disabilities) and already works as reference point for families of disabled people who are referred to it by the health service. Punto Acca is intended as a focused reference point for the school system. 

The second aspect of Punto Acca is the training of teachers to create awareness and disseminate knowledge on the availability of assistive technologies for helping the scholastic integration of students with various disabilities.

At present, this awareness is limited with the result that disabled students are not benefiting from the e-inclusion potential of existing ICT technologies.

In 2005, in collaboration with the Istituto dei Sordi who provided the trainers, the Foundation run a seminar for teachers (mostly support teachers) and also a session on sign languages.

Subsequently, the Foundation and Campus Biomedico created a course for teachers on assistive technologies for various types of disabilities.

This course counted on the participation of 62 teachers as well as assistive technology companies and was piloted and evaluated in 2005 (click here for brief evaluation of the course).