More details are available from ANED’s Indicators of Disability Equality in Europe. The following key points are summarised from data sources at European or national level, with particular relevance to the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 and Europe 2020 targets.

There is currently no national academic research network on disability studies in Lithuania.

Special Education Research Centre at Siauliai University studies various spheres of education of persons with disabilities, ways of meeting and assessing their educational, psychological, and social needs, also speech therapy and social integration areas. At present the main research topic of the Centre is 'Exclusion and social participation: educational and psychosocial issues‘.

The national assembly representing disabled people’s organisations is:

Lithuanian Union of Persons with Disabilities has 21 associate members all around Lithuania.

The national organisation representing disabled people at the European level (European Disability Forum) is:

The Lithuanian National Forum of the Disabled operates on the principle of “nothing about us without us”. It seeks to disseminate information, shape policy development, and encourage research on disability issues.