Empowering Persons with Intellectual Disabilities Through Work/School Alternation: a Positive Case study

Abstract

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.

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“…On this scale, higher scores denoted a higher neuropsychological impairment. In a study using in vivo functional neuroimaging Bohon, Weinbach & Lock [31] have indicated that performance on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test was associated with an increase in metabolic activity in right frontal pole, inferior frontal gyrus and middle frontal gyrus.…”