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ACCESS FOR HANDICAPPED PEOPLE IN THE NORTH ISERE

By Célia Balandras & Océane Hernandez (Sainte-Marie Lyon), October 2013

1.What does “handicapped” mean?

It is always associated with the stereotypical image of someone in a wheelchair or with a cane. However, there are different types of disability: physical, intellectual, visual and auditory. In 2007, the French national statistics agency “INSEE” estimated that 9.6 million people were living with disability in France. Disability is defined as “any activity limitation restriction in social life because of permanent or multiple disabilities of their physical or sensory functions.”


2.Disability in the Isère department.

The Isère is a French administrative department situated in the Rhone-Alpes region. Its administrative number is 38 and its surface area is 7 431.44 km². There are about 1 169 491 inhabitants and there are several big towns like Grenoble, Bourgoin-Jallieu, Vienne and L’Isle D’Abeau. Every big town has a lot of public facilities like swimming pools, parks and sometimes train stations.


3. What facilities are in place for the disabled?

There are some regulations that have to be adhered to, like the widths of doors, and the installation of lifts and stairs. In addition, if the organisation has more than 50 people (or more than 100 for schools), a lift is required, for example at our school—Les Maristes. In a car park there must also be several parking spaces for disabled people. Toilets, telephones, doors and escape windows should also be accessible for people with reduced mobility. Transport that serves these organisations, that is to say all modes of public transport (buses, trains, taxis, planes, and so on) must also adhere to these regulations. The public transport network TransIsere, for example, provides a special bus service called Mobi’bus which in the North Isère runs in the Bourgoin-Jallieu area.


4. What activities are on offer for the disabled?

It is important that a disabled person can live like anybody else, so a lot of sports clubs offer membership to the disabled in sports like tennis, basketball, or rugby. In Bourgoin-Jallieu, for instance, there is a rugby club for the disabled. Other examples include running and handball in Bourgoin, and in the South Isère Grenoble organizes a “Sports Day for Blind people” so they can go cycling. In addition, some swimming pools have access for handicapped people, like in Bourgoin-Jallieu and Grenoble. The Farms of St Jean de Vaulx and the Grand Goulet in Chantonnay both enable handicapped children to take part in farm life and discover farm animals. In the North Isère, these are just a few of the organizations which offer “ordinary” activities where the disabled can play sport and meet others.

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