Who they are
The Landelijke Federatie Belangenbehartigers voor mensen met een Beperking (LFB) is a Dutch national self-advocacy organisation for people with intellectual disabilities. The distinguishing feature of LFB compared to most advocacy organisations in the disability space is that it is by people with intellectual disabilities, not for them — members and staff with lived experience lead the work rather than being consulted as an afterthought.
LFB operates at the intersection of advocacy, policy engagement, and practical support, and is one of the most important structural voices for self-determination in the Dutch gehandicaptenzorg (disability care) sector.
Focus areas
- Self-advocacy capacity building for people with intellectual disabilities
- Policy engagement on rights, participation, and care quality
- Peer support and training
- Participating in research and practice projects as equal partners rather than as research subjects
Relationship to this wiki
LFB was one of the core network partners in the SGL research project (2016–2020). Its inclusion matters because much of the research and writing on sensory processing in autism with intellectual disability happens about the people concerned, not with them. Having LFB as a participatory-research partner was a deliberate counter to that pattern, and it is consistent with the wider SGL commitment to the Adapted Intervention Mapping method.
This wiki should capture what LFB contributed and continue to model co-created knowledge rather than extractive knowledge.
Notable outputs
LFB’s outputs are predominantly policy positions, training materials, and organisational-level contributions to government and care-sector consultations. For the SGL project specifically, LFB’s contribution was participation in SGL’s co-design process rather than a distinct publication — but that participation is part of what gives the SGL knowledge products their legitimacy as co-produced rather than merely consulted-on.
Open questions for a future curator
- Does LFB have its own materials on sensory processing that should be captured in
03-methods/as practice-based knowledge? Worth asking directly.
Last reviewed
2026-04-12. Relationship is historical (via SGL); current status requires verification.