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"The Great Ferryman": A Life in Points

Franco Basaglia's Life and Work

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Transforming Practice

Why We Remember Franco Basaglia

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The Centenarian's Still-Unfinished Work

Franco Basaglia's revolutionary act: ending the segregation of the mad from the sight of the sane.

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The Dentist's Chair

A conversation with Paolo Magnanelli

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That Blasted Watermelon

A Testimony from Florence

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When Your Doctor Dies: Finding Care Again

How the Dama Project filled the gap after losing a lifelong neurologist—and reaches no one is left behind

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The Whole Person: Still Unknown

A pediatrician's voice from Naples

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When Patients Cannot Speak for Themselves: A Mother's Proposal

A mother who lost her son with severe disabilities makes a concrete proposal to Italian healthcare

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My Pregnancy: A Different Journey

I carried a pregnancy unlike any documented in medical literature—as a woman with cerebral palsy and spasticity, there were no guidelines, no research, nothing to prepare me for what lay ahead.

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A Right Too Often Denied

The Tobia Project at Rome's San Camillo Hospital

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Who's Afraid of Informed Consent?

The European Court of Human Rights ruling on the short film Dear Future Mom raises urgent questions

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Picking Up the Thread

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Jérôme Lejeune

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Erasing Them from Sight

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Always the Bridesmaid, Never the Bride

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Kairos: A Boxer with Down Syndrome

At the Tertio Millennio Film Festival, the best feature film award goes to Kairos, the story of a boxer living with Down syndrome

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A Virtual Memory Map to Fight Alzheimer's

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Multimodal Communication

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World Down Syndrome Day 2018: What I Bring to My Community

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Francis's Friends

At every public meeting, audience, or Mass, Pope Francis reserves "the place of honor" for people with disabilities

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My Name Is Charlotte Fien, and I Have Down Syndrome

My speech to the United Nations on World Down Syndrome Day, March 20, 2017

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Epigenetics and Psychiatric Disease

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Being Present to the Dying

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All Children Are Special

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Following Giò's Lead

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The Architects of Tomorrow: CRISPR Cas9

An interview with scientist Mirelle Leduc on the promise and peril of gene editing technology

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The Geniuses of the Past... and Autism Today?

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Open Dialogue No. 133

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Bad Luck?

During a disability awareness event at a high school, a senior refused to sit in a wheelchair

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The Burning Bush of Sant'Ilario

Maria Grazia's testimony: thirty years ago, a young woman in a wheelchair asked to join the Secular Institute of the Little Apostles of Charity—and changed everything

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Seven Myths About Down Syndrome

Answers from Dr. Aimé Ravel, pediatrician and director of clinical services at the Jérome Lejeune Institute in Paris, who has cared for children and young people with Down syndrome for thirty years

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We Move Carefully With Diagnosis

Charlotte Lernount works with children from birth to age six, many of whom show developmental and motor difficulties. She explains why diagnosis at this age is rarely straightforward

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Your Child Has Something Wrong

When a diagnosis of disability is delivered to a family, it triggers different reactions across the whole household—parents, siblings, grandparents. It is the first crisis moment, one that shatters not just the couple but the entire extended family.

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What Makes Someone Extraordinary? An Interview with Nick Vujicic

The moment I first met Nick Vujicic, I knew I was in the presence of someone remarkable

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The False Morality of Finding Down Syndrome "Beautiful"

A provocative piece that challenges some comfortable assumptions

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Real Quality in the Care of Older Adults

An Interview with an Experienced Geriatrician

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What Is the Point of Paolo's Life?

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Cristina Acquistapace: When a Name Becomes a Calling

Down syndrome did not stop Cristina from charting an unexpected spiritual path

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Mental Retardation and Genetic Disease: The Search for a Cure

Remembering Professor Lejeune Fifty Years After the Discovery of Trisomy 21

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Becoming a Mother

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Difficult Moments

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Spina Bifida: What You Need to Know

A neural tube defect affecting roughly one in one thousand births, spina bifida occurs when the spine fails to close properly during early pregnancy, sometimes allowing the spinal cord to protrude from the vertebral column.

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Achondroplasia: A Medical Overview

Salvatore Anastasi, pediatrician at the Thalassemia Unit in Catania, explains this genetic condition

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Understanding Hyperactivity

The word "hyperactivity" conjures images of lively, happy children full of life — childhood and carefree abandon. The reality is far more complex.

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How to Help Your Child Behave Well

A practical guide for parents of children with ADHD (and some ideas for all kids)

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Alzheimer: When the Past Vanishes

"Kids, Grandma has Alzheimer's disease." That announcement, in the late 1980s, brought my whole family face to face with an illness that would reshape everything we thought we knew.

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Disabling Conditions in Aging: When Health Fails

Dementia, osteoporosis, stroke, and Parkinson's disease present urgent challenges for older adults in the twenty-first century—and underscore the vital role of medical care and family support.

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Alzheimer: But First, He's My Grandfather

Manlio is 88 and living with Alzheimer's. Everyone who once anchored his world has become a source of terror.

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Alzheimer: So Close, So Far Away

Maria is 53—far too young—but Alzheimer's has robbed her of the ability to care for herself or her teenage daughter.

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Alzheimer: Still, Always Hand in Hand

How a life can change in hours, without warning, for everyone involved

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The Great Love of Her Sister Marta

One evening Francesca left home and never came back. Alzheimer's had chosen an ordinary day to strike—to seize her mind and never give it back.

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Behavioral Therapy: TEACCH vs. ABA

For parents, I say this: seek out behavioral therapists. They exist in Italy. You'll find them at every AIAMC office.

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Prenatal Diagnosis: What You Need to Know

A guide to current screening and diagnostic techniques, what they reveal, and the choices parents face when results come back.

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When a Doctor Announces Disability: What Parents and Physicians Face

An interview with Dr. Silvia De Kermadec, obstetrician and director of the Jérôme Lejeune Institute in Paris

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Understanding Parkinson's Disease

Dr. Valeria Levi della Vida, vice president of the Azione Parkinson Association, explains what this disease is, clarifying little-known aspects and dispelling common myths

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Autism: A Different Way of Perceiving the World

Michel Lemay, a child psychiatrist who directed the autism and developmental disorders clinic at Sainte-Justine Hospital in Montreal for 25 years, surveys the current scientific understanding of the condition.

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How we can accompany small and large crises

Accompanying the person in crisis is all we can do: to stay close, to support them, knowing that we cannot substitute ourselves for them and that we cannot definitively take their pain upon ourselves.

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New Technology and Disability — HANDimatica 2002: What's on the Agenda

A specialized conference and exhibition on new technologies for integrating people with disabilities — Bologna, November 28–30, 2002

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Understanding Cri du Chat Syndrome

A mother's testimony offers us the chance to discuss a little-known syndrome. We asked two physicians for their insights.

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The Cri du Chat Children's Association

The Cri du Chat Children's Association (ABC) is a national organization founded in October 1995 by parents of a five-year-old child with Cri du Chat syndrome.

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When a Child with Disability Is Born

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An Experimental Center for Autism

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Play and the Autistic Child

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Florent in Italian School

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"Spastic": Why This Term Misrepresents Cerebral Palsy

Prof. Arthuis clarifies the terminology and realities of cerebral palsy, a condition far more complex than a single label suggests

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Autistic Children in School

A 1990 report from the Courrier picard documents a pioneering French initiative to help three autistic children learn to socialize and thrive in a mainstream school setting

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It's Not Always Easy Being a Sister

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Understanding Autism

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Helping Him Become a Man

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Mental Illness

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Open Dialogue No. 21

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Why Not Learn Guitar?

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Open Dialogue No. 18

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He Sees, Hears, and Speaks Through His Hands

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Epilepsy's Invisible Mark

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Epilepsy: A Neurological Disorder Still Misunderstood

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Epilepsy: First Aid Guidelines

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Before It's Too Late

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What Not to Do

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The Mystery of the Psychotic Child

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The Law on Integration

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"Rehabilitation Should Happen in Schools"—But the Girl Isn't Allowed in Class

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No Human Being Is a Stone

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Early Childhood Psychosis: What Is It?

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My Child with Down Syndrome

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Trisomy 21: Down Syndrome

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Cerebral Palsy in Children

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The Pediatrician's Role in Treating the Handicapped Child

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Recovery Techniques for the Severely Disabled: The Role of Socialization

We attended a professional development course led by a British team on sensory rehabilitation, behavioral disorders, child development, and related topics. Here's what we learned.

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Autistic Children: A Guide for Parents — Book Review

Lorna Wing - Armando Editore, 175 pages - 2,500 lire

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Xavier: Mine, Ours, a New Friend!

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Questions About Down Syndrome

The J. Lejeune Institute, which specializes in research and care for disabled people, recently published a guide for parents of children with Down syndrome and their caregivers