Disability, without barriers

Internationally this day is known as the International Day of People with Disability or even with the initials IDPwD.

The celebration date was chosen in 1992 and has always remained on December 3rd; every year the theme is different: we discover the topic of this year and the various activities promoted.

The theme of the International Day of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

This year, the Day focuses on 17 objectives to be achieved in order to be able to say that it is advancing in the field of combating obstacles in terms of disability, material and mental obstacles: removal of slowdowns and critical points and work towards promoting improvements at the level of communication, transport, quality of life, circulation of information.

The testimonial of the day is Karni Liddel, Olympic champion, radio speaker, long engaged in the various causes involving the disabled.

This is an important day to celebrate those that in Italy correspond to 4 million people, many of them talents in some art, and in the world about one billion.

There will be events in many cities: the Italian Association for Disabled informs about the proposals that cover the whole day in various cities of the Italian territory;

We report the event organized in Rome by La Sapienza University which presents "The art of being"; then we recommend you visit the FB page created by the Council for People in Difficulty and the beautiful page that the Courier dedicates to disabled people entitled InVisibili, which always returns valid reports and without unnecessary compassion.

The official website of the day collects dedicated events throughout the global territory, with the possibility of inserting your own; then you will find images of the opening of the events in recent years and a gallery dedicated to the sporting event held in 2015 (the disabled cricket team for blindness). There are resources and documentation available for the student, the teacher and the disabled and non-disabled user. We also report the site of the Association for the Development of Information Systems for the Handicapped (ASPHI), a portal on educational technologies for disabilities, and Alterweb, a news container for the disabled.

Disability without barriers: daily life, health, sport

If it is true that framework law n. 104 of 1992 to the law n. 68 of 1999 on the work of people with disabilities has regulated various issues of fundamental importance, such as accessibility or inclusion in the school system, it is also true that in practice there are still many obstacles, mental, material.

Full inclusion in many small towns as well as in many hectic cities remains a goal. We imagine an inclusion that takes place in all the different dimensions and opportunities of daily life: school, work, health, accessibility and transport, quality and uniformity of services.

Recently, however, even in the last Paralympics, one feels that things are changing, there is interest, less useless compassion, more empathy and sincere support and admiration for athletes and athletes who have achieved shocking results. Even in terms of laws, things seem to be moving.

The ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (L. 18/09) further decreases the distance between existing rules and real life on the basis of the new paradigm that sees human rights at the center, the principle of non-discrimination and equality of opportunity .

This is what we must begin to understand in sport as in everyday life: a disabled person can do the extraordinary within his own abilities and very often proving to know how to overcome even those.