{"id":5101,"date":"2025-03-01T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/sensory-disabilities-awareness-course\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T07:10:28","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T07:10:28","slug":"sensory-disabilities-awareness-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/sensory-disabilities-awareness-course\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sensory Disabilities Awareness&#8221; course."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"row\"  id=\"row-1212904644\">\n\n\n\t<div id=\"col-145125548\" class=\"col small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rethinking community with an inclusive point of view<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Between February and March 2025, our member Olivia Longo participated in the course on <\/span><b>sensory disabilities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  curated by our member Daniela Fiordalisi (with Francesca Bosetti). The course, which aimed to provide an overview regarding the   <\/span><b>disabilities<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, particularly visual and hearing.<br><\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It was pointed out that disability, as defined by the<\/span><b>WHO<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, is a condition that affects a person&#8217;s autonomy. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During the course, the topic of <\/span><b>visual disability<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, defined by Law 138 of 2001, which also includes people who are <\/span><b>visually impaired<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, a visual condition too often not perceived as a serious disability by society.<br><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Topics touched on in the course: the role of the <\/span><b>white cane<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and the <\/span><b>guide dog<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the importance of the<\/span><b>Braille alphabet<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the different types of <\/span><b>hearing aids<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and of <\/span><b>sign language<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<br><\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">There was also an opportunity to interact with a person who is <\/span><b>deaf-blind person<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, to break down the barriers caused by lack of knowledge and showing the communication tools available.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\t<div id=\"col-248589792\" class=\"col border-img small-12 large-12\"  >\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"col-inner\"  >\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\n\t<div class=\"img has-hover x md-x lg-x y md-y lg-y\" id=\"image_1032416650\">\n\t\t<a class=\"image-lightbox lightbox-gallery\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/citislab.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Foto_consegna-certificato_1812-02-e-1-03-2025.jpg\">\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"img-inner image-cover dark\" style=\"padding-top:90%;\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1025\" height=\"684\" src=\"https:\/\/citislab.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Foto_consegna-certificato_1812-02-e-1-03-2025.jpg\" class=\"attachment-original size-original\" alt=\"Sensory Disabilities Awareness Course: Daniela Fiordalisi hands Olivia Longo the Certificate\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citislab.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Foto_consegna-certificato_1812-02-e-1-03-2025.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/citislab.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Foto_consegna-certificato_1812-02-e-1-03-2025-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citislab.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Foto_consegna-certificato_1812-02-e-1-03-2025-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citislab.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Foto_consegna-certificato_1812-02-e-1-03-2025-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"caption\">Sensory Disabilities Awareness Course: Daniela Fiordalisi hands Olivia Longo the Certificate<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\t\t\n<style>\n#image_1032416650 {\n  width: 100%;\n}\n<\/style>\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[180,183],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5101"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5107,"href":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5101\/revisions\/5107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citislab.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}