Communicating disability, from needs to rights
“The right words to say it“, How to communicate disability. trainers and experts a comparison with i journalistsidentifying the key to correct information – linguistic tools, themes and tones – starting from those with disabilities who are confronted on a daily basis. Francesca CiverchiaHead of Disability Service and Residential Assistance of San Marino looks at words of inclusion and to the multiple forms of communication to be used with the disabled to break down diversity.
Gianpiero Griffomember of the DPI world council – also consultant for San Marino in the drafting of the law on disability and now for the drafting of the law on job inclusion, as well as member of the Bioethics Committee – asks, through a legislative excursus and starting from the guidelines UNto move from a model that looks at the disabled in their needs, to a new one that instead looks at the recognition of their rights, when it says “words are stones, while the appropriate languages promote human rights ”. The duty to inform on the part of the category, but in parallel, the right to understand for those who have less than other tools, in the intervention of Nicola Rabbitrainer on the issues not only of disability, but also of mental greeting and prison.
For 12 years Director of the Social Secretariat of Rai, Carlo Romeo tells the beauty and the effort of promoting what he called “a revolutionary path” in treating disability in public service, in language and programming – from newscasts to network programs. Public service duties very close to those of those who do institutional communication, with the experience of Mauro Sarti – for decades a social journalist and now Director of the Information and Institutional Communication Service of the Legislative Assembly of Emilia-Romagna – in indicating new channels of public communication, from multimedia to differentiated, closer to citizens.
In the video, the interview with Francesca Civerchia, Head of Disability Service and Residential Assistance of the Republic of San Marino