<p>This study was about disability organisations opinion concerning ICF: s importance in their work to receive the same recognition and human rights for their members as citizens. The aim has been to elucidate disability organisations awareness about and use/non use of ICF and to increase the understanding of ICF: s importance for recognition and redistribution. Three different methods have been used: literature study, questionnaire survey, both on counties' (27) - and national (26) level and interviews (5) on national level. There is also a distinct difference between the disability organisations that represents people with visible impairments, who don’t think that ICF is so useful and they that represent people with invisible impairments, who thinks that ICF is a useful tool. This difference exists both in the use of ICF and the classifications importance for recognition but not ICF: s importance for redistribution. The main conclusion of the study is that awareness about and education around ICF is needed among disability organisations. A restructuring of ICF is also needed, the language should be simplified and the codes should be faded down so that the focus will be on ICF: s intention and the mind map that the classification offers. This is also necessary so that ICF becomes accessible for everybody.</p>

This study was about disability organisations opinion concerning ICF: s importance in their work to receive the same recognition and human rights for their members as citizens. The aim has been to elucidate disability organisations awareness about and use/non use of ICF and to increase the understanding of ICF: s importance for recognition and redistribution. Three different methods have been used: literature study, questionnaire survey, both on counties' (27) - and national (26) level and interviews (5) on national level. There is also a distinct difference between the disability organisations that represents people with visible impairments, who don’t think that ICF is so useful and they that represent people with invisible impairments, who thinks that ICF is a useful tool. This difference exists both in the use of ICF and the classifications importance for recognition but not ICF: s importance for redistribution. The main conclusion of the study is that awareness about and education around ICF is needed among disability organisations. A restructuring of ICF is also needed, the language should be simplified and the codes should be faded down so that the focus will be on ICF: s intention and the mind map that the classification offers. This is also necessary so that ICF becomes accessible for everybody.