Profile of Antti Teittinen
The FAIDD Center for Research and Development (http://kehitysvammaliitto.fi/tutkimus.html and http:// kehitysvammaliitto.fi/en/research.html) was founded in 1978, and today it is an active center of disability studies in Finland. It offers a forum and facilities that are needed to realise this project to researchers and other associates, because it has been focused on the themes of the applied project. The FAIDD Center’s research topics have varied widely from studies on the employment of people with IDD, quality of life and living conditions of people with IDD, service-user careers and social benefits, deinstitutionalization processes in the service system, self-determination and person centered-practices in the service provision for people with disabilities, to the research on categorizations of IDD and theoretical basis for disability studies In recent research activities, a strong emphasis has been given to the sociologically oriented research on the position of the people with disabilities in the society and the FAIDD Center for Research and Development is one of the biggest units of academic disability studies in Finland today. One of the main research themes is the housing services for people with IDD and the person centered planning approach to their daily supports.
