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Fondazione ASPHI Onlus is an italian non-profit organization founded to promote the integration of people with disabilities in the school, at work and in society, through the use of ICT (Information Communication Technology)

Differently from many other organizations, ASPHI founding associates are not physical persons but businesses and organizations, some of them relevant at a national level (such as IBM Italia, Inail and INPS) who sustain ASPHI's activities and services through contributions or offering the services of their own staff.

Projects and services developers are many collaborators: over fifty people, many of them volunteers, in various parts of Italy: in Bologna, where the main ASPHI's branch is located, and in Milan, Rome and Turin, as well as areas in Padua, Naples and Palermo were there are other ASPHI's outreach offices.

ASPHI is involved with research and innovation, paying particular attention to: new projects and new needs; Training of teachers and carers; engineering new training software; mass screening for preventative solutions to problems such as deafness or dislexia; a consultancy service for work placements and education of disabled adults and children; promoting information through contacts, Asphi's presence at conventions, etc.

ASPHI works through projects in cooperation with public and private services whose contribution is significant thanks to their experience and knowledge (Associations, Public Community Services, Universities, Research Centres, Businesses, etc.) The projects are created and promoted directly by ASPHI and today we have over seventy projects within Italy and abroad: 23 are employment projects, 19 are educational projects in Schools, 15 of rehabilitation and independent living, and just as many are oriented towards raising awareness and informational services.

Because of this, ASPHI today represents a point of reference at national levels within new technologies for overcoming disabilities, as a Reference Centre for information technology applications towards the integration of people with disabilities.