Art and sport: inclusion tools for adult disability. Lazio Region 2015/2016

  • Project title: Art and sport: inclusion tools for adult disability
  • Client: Lazio Region • Implementing body: ASL ROMA E (Structures involved: UOC TSRMEE and Disabled Adults – UOS Disabled Adults – Day Center La Mongolfiera)
  • Associated bodies: Libertas National Sports Center; Labos – Foundation Laboratory for Social Policies
  • Recipients: users of services for the adult disability of ASL Rome E.
  • Duration: 18 months (CURRENT PROJECT)
  • Issue addressed: the project intends to stimulate and deepen the interests of disabled people, through integrated sporting and artistic activities, or activities that represent ordinary occasions of relationship in everyday life and help them to overcome situations of passivity and isolation, acting as mediators and as engines of development of skills of autonomy, self-care and relationships. project: 1) Quantitatively increase the number of exits on the territory of rehabilitation groups, (visits to exhibitions and museums of the painting group, transfers of sports groups, exits to take photos and videos ..) 2) Expand access to sports activities (in particular gymnastics, for which there is a considerable discrepancy between request and offer) organized by the services for the adult disability of the ASL Roma E.3) Equip spaces and activities with the right tools (MultiMediale laboratory, Painting and Gymnastics) .4) Measure the impact of sports practice and artistic activities on the quality of life of disabled people who participants participate, through an information system monitoring the progress of activities and the effects on the competences of autonomy, adaptation, relationship and global functioning of the participants
  • Research phases: 1) INTEGRATED ACTIVITIES BETWEEN SPORT AND ARTISTIC LANGUAGES: sports meetings ( swimming, triathlon, karate, soccer, gymnastics) and moments of artistic expression (photography, video, painting) involving the participation of about 80 users with intellectual and relational disabilities, 2) ASSESSMENT OF THE IMPACT OF ACTIVITIES: through a series of interviews users will be met, their experience explored, their skills measured and compared with those.
  • Contact person: Anna Calvaruso