%0 Journal Article
%T Empowering Persons With Intellectual Disabilities Through Work/school Alternation: A Positive case study case study case study case study case study case study case study case study case study case study case study case study case study case study case study Case Study - Empowering Persons With Intellectual Disabilities Through Work/school Alternation: A Positive case study case study case study case study case study case study case study case study case study case study case study case study case study case study case study Case Study - Open Access Pub
%A Zappella Emanuela
%J OAP | Home | Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | Open Access Pub
%D 2019
%X Entry into the world of work is an important moment for people with disabilities and for their professional inclusion. Using a case study, This research presents the project of school/work alternation carried out with a student with intellectual disability within a supermarket during the frequency of the last year in a higher institute in northern Italy. This study intends to describe the process and highlight the strategies used in this experience. The paper ends with an analysis of the factors that can favour a positive experience and which can be a starting-point for other, similar experiences. This experience shows that, with adequate training, people with intellectual disabilities can be protagonists of an experience that favors their well-being and social inclusion. DOI10.14302/issn.2643-6655.jcap-19-2764 The United Nations Convention states that people with disabilities: "must be able to fully enjoy all human rights and fundamental freedoms in conditions of equality with respect to others" 1. The OECD 2 declares that in various social, economic and cultural contexts in the world the search for means to stimulate social progress in a more inclusive way is active. Saxton & Ghenis (2018) 3 stress that it is necessary to implement system actions that lead to the achievement of full inclusion and the construction of a society for all. This is why some social innovation projects were born based on an idea of community (both scholastic and territorial) that becomes welcoming and can carry out strategic functions of support and support. Innovation concerns new ideas to respond to urgent needs and problems that now have no response and, at the same time, create new social relationships or forms of collaboration. Life Project and Professional Orientation There are many authors who, thinking of people with disabilities, underline the importance of the life project, that is the need to think about the student as a person who can grow up and become an adult. The project is the place of possibility, imagination and creativity, it is a way through which the mind approaches reality to transform it concretely, leaving the door to the fantastic ajar. Each one needs a series of projects to realize one's own life, that is, a series of intentionally programmed actions capable of transforming the imagination into a completed work. Also the project is a way to anticipate the future but, unlike the dream, in the project we start by separating what is extraordinary from what is impossible. Within the project it is therefore possible to meet one's own potential but also
%U https://www.openaccesspub.org/jcap/article/1079