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] To promote "accessibility to information and communications", for PWDs, which includes information, communications, and assistive device technologies.
With the help of assistive devices and the creation of barrier-free built environments, PWDs will be able to enjoy their freedom of movements and choices in daily life. The main focus is on meeting the needs of the majority of PWDs, especially in the developing countries of the ESCAP region, who are excluded from such services and opportunities that only a few privileged person receives.
Assistive devices are only devices that directly help PWDs in undertaking activities of daily living (ADL). Such activities are pursuing education, enjoying freedom of movements in the built environment, and working and engaging in leisure programs and plans.
Assistive devices can be grouped into four categories: locomotive disabilities, multiple disabilities.
General principles concerning the designs, production, and distribution of assistive devices must be acknowledged and executed if the goals are to be reached.
Each person with disability has different needs, abilities desires, and potential; therefore the choices and designs of assistive devices should be based on the factors, and should comply with local customs and cultures, the physical environment, as well as economic conditions and lifestyles of the users and their communities. The assistive devices must be adapted to fit the individual users, and not for the users to be forced to fit into the devices, If possible, PWDs should be given the priority for training and work in all areas of rehabilitation.
In addition, the communities must try to use all locally-available materials and resources for the production, repair and maintenance of the assistive devices; while seeking the compromise of the communities crafts persons, mechanics, and welders.
Once the assistive devices are being used, it is necessary to promote training in their use and regular follow-up on their continued appropriateness especially for young children. A regional plan should also be worked out in which issues, studies, technologies, or projects concerning assistive devices with existing one included. There should be, as well, a regional information center in which a database concerning assistive devices in the ESCAP region are gathered. Inter-country linkage or networking to improve and strengthen training, as well as to exchange expertise and technical knowledge concerning devices for the poor should also be established. Technical cooperation among developing countries should be supported as well so that they will assist one another in matching specific needs with available resources and expertise within the ESCAP region. It is also necessary to train engineers, technicians and community rehabilitation workers in production, assessment and distribution of assistive devices. It is worth noting that being able to reduce the time lingering between inventions and innovation will greatly improve and strengthen technical cooperation.
When all these principles and recommendations are put into action, assistive devices can help tremendously help PWDs, especially for the poor, as they will be able to have more opportunities to participate in the activities of daily life. "Indigenous Assistive" devices must be promoted in developing countries so that they will recognize and realize the need and seriousness of the limited availability of culturally-appropriate, high quality and low-cost assistive devices.
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