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The Finnish Association on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (FAIDD) promotes good life, equality and participation for people with intellectual disabilities and others who need support with learning, understanding and communicating. The goal of FAIDD is that all people can live together from an equal footing.
The FAIDD headquarters are located in the Leppävaara district in Espoo, Finland.
FAIDD was founded in 1952. Its most significant financier is Veikkaus.
The main operating areas of FAIDD are research, development, personnel training, production of materials, promoting plain-language information and culture, furthering accessible and participatory communication and use of information technology, as well as providing and exchanging information and exercising social influence.
FAIDD is a social actor, a centre of knowledge and skills and a forum of cooperation. FAIDD engages in diverse cooperation with people with disabilities and their families and carers, professionals in the field, service providers, organisations, businesses and public authorities.
The core operating areas are:
All FAIDD activities are based on a commitment to the following values:
The strategy of FAIDD is focused, for instance, on the following areas:
FAIDD participates in a range of international activities and is a member of many European collaborative networks and projects. FAIDD has also carried out several projects in St Petersburg with support from the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the European Commission.
The actual members of FAIDD are joint municipal authorities, municipalities, congregations, registered voluntary organisations and foundations. The support members are private individuals. The members work in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities or act otherwise in the interest of disabled people.
In addition to the FAIDD homepage, the association maintains several other internet services, some of which also offer information in English: