Education

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High School with Rett Syndrome

Valentina's Story, Told by Her Mother

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Inclusive Schools Taught Me to Think Critically

How I dismantle faulty arguments, piece by piece

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A Good Wind

The personal and public story of Law 517

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How Legislative Decree 182/2020 Takes Us Back Forty Years

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What the Single-Desk Classroom Might Teach Us

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What About the Right to Study?

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Francesca and I

A teacher's story and her "discordant" student

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Back to School? — Summer Newsletter No. 23

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The Cat on the Desk and Goethe's Mountains

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Beautiful, All of Them

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A School That Acts: Boscoreale's Fundraiser for Students with Disabilities

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School, Disability, and Support: AIPD's Free Download Guide

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Teaching High School Students About Disability

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Play Day 2018 in Venice: Bridging the Distance of Disability Through Sport

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StudentInSella: Bringing Students with Disabilities into the Saddle

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Should Children with Disabilities Repeat School Years? What Families Actually Think

Government policy and research favor keeping disabled children with their age cohort. But parents don't always agree.

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The Plus-Able: Two Extraordinary Sisters

Vittoria, age 13, wrote her eighth-grade thesis on "The Plus-Able"—exploring how disability can transform into greater ability. Her subject: her older sister Maria Futura.

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My Life at Santa Palomba

Hello, my name is Pietro, Pietro Bigari. I was born in 1945, and now I'm going to tell you what my life is like at Santa Palomba—the good things and the bad things.

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Dossier: School and Disability

School shapes our children's lives—their growth, their learning, their place in the world—whether they face handicap, special educational needs, or neither.

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The Grading Dilemma

On integrating disabled students into secondary school

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Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Omar's mother reflects on her son's school years and shares how she wrote him a history book in the form of a fairy tale

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I Hardly Knew Them

I was invited to a special performance. The actors were either older women (who carried their years well), carefree little girls, or young adults of both sexes—all made fragile by a handicap more or less visible.

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Open Dialogue No. 115

Your Perspective: Suggestions, Comments, Criticism for the Magazine — Your Questions and Concerns

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Standing with Her

Since her birth, Philippine has undergone nearly one surgery a year. The most significant came in 2010: three weeks hospitalized for two four-hour spinal operations.

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How Recognition of the Other Restores Trust

You see... really, he doesn't need to speak. You just have to know how to listen.

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Always Respect the Person

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African girls are a celebration of braids

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Taking Up the Burden of the Last

Don Virginio Colmegna's clear testimony about Casa della Carità, where countless situations are welcomed—including those who arrive "shattered" by devastating circumstances—and the weight of that hospitality

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Autism and School Inclusion

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Help Me Do It Myself

Maria Montessori's pedagogical insights and methods offer invaluable lessons for educating children with disabilities

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A Letter to Matteo's Classmates

One family's thoughtful introduction at the start of the school year

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Learning Disabilities: Branded "Idiot"

At twenty-two, Arnaud remembers how dyslexia shaped his school years and his relationships with others

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Learning and Belonging: One Mother's Journey Through Preschool

As both a mother of a child with disability and a teacher, I find myself unable to separate these two roles—or their contradictions.

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Undertrained Teachers in Kindergarten

A mother's account of her five-and-a-half-year-old daughter, blind from birth, with developmental and language delays

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School Integration: Paolo's Looming Loss

Paolo needs a special-education teacher alongside regular instruction because of lasting effects from a serious congenital condition. But what happens when he leaves school?

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Gianluca's Elementary School: Is It Real Integration?

I've been asked to share my experience of my son's integration at school, and I have to say honestly that it's a difficult subject to address.

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School Integration: The Real Need Is Supporting Parents of Non-Disabled Children

Daniele's mother argues that ignorance and fear of the unfamiliar often breed attitudes that deeply wound disabled students and their families

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School Integration: What It Looks Like From the Desk Next Door

In elementary school, I had two classmates I never really knew—they spent almost every day with a special education aide

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Autism and School Integration

Davide Del Duca reflects on inclusive education for autistic students, alongside stories of two young people supported by his Foundation

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A School Worth Following: Integration in Action

Where do we start when discussing the integration of disabled students in Italian schools today? We begin with an encouraging, inspiring example.

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School Made for Every Child

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Why Enhanced School and Social-Educational Center for Young Children Matter

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Out of the Corner

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Three Teachers, One Classroom

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From Silence to Speech

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Teaching with Love

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From a Teacher's Diary

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Here, "Integration" Is Not Just a Word

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What It Takes: Building a School Like This

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Open Dialogue No. 8

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School Integration: A Hard Truth to Tell

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One Egg, Two Eggs

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Open Forum No. 7

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The Blue Class

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Andrea in the Classroom

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Vicenza: The Professional Training Center of the Franciscan "Charitas" Foundation

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I Ask Myself

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School and Disability: What Two Mothers Tell Us About Inclusion

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Integration in Schools: The Case For and Against

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Finding Ourselves Unique, Growing Together

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My (Mis)adventure

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School and Disability: from the School Observatory of the AIAS of Milan