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During the lockdown we continued to train children with intellectual disabilities.
This is the cover of the “Quaderno Tecnico di Calcio Insieme a Casa” (Technical Notebook of Soccer Together at Home) that we created in collaboration with Roma Cares.
And an example of exercise. Thanks to all the staff who made it possible.
Calcio Insieme is a project of psychological, relational and motor empowerment through soccer for young people with intellectual disabilities, with particular reference to autism spectrum disorder.
Since 2015, the Fondazione Roma Cares, an expression of the social responsibility of AS Roma Calcio, and Asd Accademia Calcio Integrato have been organizing annual motor development programs through soccer for children with intellectual disabilities. The surveys conducted have highlighted the constant presence of children during the activities and the satisfaction of their families and the motor, sports and psychosocial benefits derived from these programs.
The aim of this Seminar is to present the results of the research conducted, illustrate the model of intervention, realized for the first time in youth soccer with the collaboration of AS Roma coaches, sports psychologists, speech therapists, doctors and manager for relations with schools and families.
It’s been a year from the enthusiasm giving rise to the Paralympics in London and it continues to do little or nothing to promote sports and movement among people with disabilities. The initiatives are left to the individual associations that need to find themselves spaces to reduce exclusion that continues to be their more frequent social status . It’s of today the news of the initiative of Pietro Scidurlo, paraplegic from birth, young man “with a bad relationship with his disability … and with a strong need to do something of extraordinary for him and people like him.” In search of a better life for him, a year ago he has covered in handbikes the Camino de Santiago de Compostela and after this experience he founded a non-profit organization, FreWheels, to prove that “the barriers are only in our minds. If the others do the things, we can do them ourselves with disabilities,” in order to promote physical independence and social inclusion of youth with disabilities. Few days ago he has just finished a canoe trip of 500 km in 8 days, from Ticino to Po, starting from Somma Lombardo (Varese) and arriving inPiazza San Marco in Venice.
