This booklet was written with genuine respect for disabled people and with real knowledge of their everyday challenges. The approach is brief and thoroughly practical. Each common type of disability is examined for the particular obstacles it creates in daily life and social situations.
The tone is warm and suggests that people with disabilities themselves were among the authors. The illustrations are both effective and witty. The goal is to give all of us simple but specific guidelines for offering concrete help—how to push a wheelchair, how to assist a blind person onto a bus, how to introduce yourself to a deaf person, and so on—and to make contact without unnecessary mistakes.
«The first step toward someone with a disability is often difficult, but not impossible. Those who decide to overcome their own hesitations will discover how easy it is to help. Give it a try!» This booklet should circulate widely throughout the population, especially in schools of a country that talks so much about inclusion. Translated and adapted from the work of the Swiss Banking Union, it was published by the Lombardy Region—which, unfortunately, has exhausted its stock and has no plans to reprint it.
We urge them to bring it back into print.