Dignidade da pessoa com deficiência: um estudo sobre a tecnologia assistiva e politicas públicas.

Abstract

The paper presented here is to analyze the Assistive Technology, an important area of multidisciplinary character and responsible for ensuring autonomy and quality of life for people with disabilities and reduced mobility. Indeed, the TA is a real tool for the promotion of human dignity, since its abundance of resources, materials and methods is true gateway to social integration and therefore deserves its place in the realm of public policy. While it is right under the law, the availability of TA resources is still poor due to scanty government actions. Thus, through a deductive research that begins with an overview about human rights, it is proposed to study under an optical political, social and economic as regards the availability of assistive technology, examining the federal public policies between the years 2011 and 2014 focused on the development of this area, highlighting the importance of the development of this theme for realization of human rights