Who does not make noise In February 2020 the world suddenly found itself united by a pervasive health need, because Covid 19 knows no territorial boundaries, social conditions, age, gender, the pandemic affects everyone, highlighting the ‘fragility’ of people and states. According to ISTAT, there are 3.1 million disabled persons in Italy, 5.2% of the Italian population, but it is also a whispering reality, often supported by ‘welfare’ laws, which are important to enshrine a principle but lacking in design laws and with social connotations, which are fundamental for a person who is born social. Observing these last two years of emergency, my gaze focused on the disabled ‘person’, because it was precisely Covid 19 that swept away the small progress and achievements of the last few years in an instant. At last, with Article 14 of Law 328/2000, the individual project had been introduced, which brought the disabled ‘person’ back to the centre; the arrival of Covid has wiped out this important principle with a flick of the wrist, causing old bureaucratic schemes and the purely economic side of disability to re-emerge.
In the chaos of Ministerial, Regional, and Municipal decrees that have submerged us over the last two years, the difficulty for families and managing bodies to continue caring for, supporting, and carrying out projects aimed at ‘persons’ with disabilities has emerged forcefully, because bureaucracy itself has ‘played’ with the third sector’s funding with specious legal quibbles and made relations between institutions conflictual. The third sector, the sentinel of the territory and the social sector, which intercepts the needs of disabled ‘people’, in this pandemic has had to reinvent itself with new projects to bypass that ‘social distancing’ which is essential to contain the virus but deleterious to people who need a social context. Casa Filippide, which is a socio-educational centre, starting from the concept that assisting and caring for persons with disabilities is not an activity that can be suspended while waiting for better times, has tried to stem this forced distancing by designing and reinventing a suitable educational programme to bring the ‘boys’ closer to a virtual reality that is indispensable for staying connected, continuing to focus on both an ‘individualised’ and a group programme.
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Who does not make noise In February 2020 the world suddenly found itself united by a pervasive health need, because Covid 19 knows no territorial boundaries, social conditions, age, gender, the pandemic affects everyone, highlighting the ‘fragility’ of people and states. According to ISTAT, there are 3.1 million disabled persons…