Organisations of disabled people

The national organisation representing disabled people at the European level (European Disability Forum) is:

The Swedish Disability Federation is the voice of the Swedish disability movement towards the government, the parliament and national authorities. The co-operative body consists today of 43 national disability organisations with about 500,000 individual members.

Other significant national organisations of disabled people include:

The Swedish National Association of the Deaf

The Swedish Federation of People with Mobility Impairments

The Swedish Association of Hard of Hearing People

The Swedish Association of the Visually Impaired

The Independent Living Institute


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