Transcript Support and inclusion of students with disabilities in

Support and
inclusion of students with disabilities in higher
education institutions in Montenegro
Working Visit
WP2. “Definition of support services for
students with disabilities at HEIs”
Presentation by Daniele Regolo
University of Macerata, 11July 2012
Persons with a disability and
work: the point of view
of a disabled
Allocating disabled workers indifferently to
any kind of roles is not the best solution,
neither for them nor for the hiring
company.
Expertise is acquired step by step,
starting from the school context.
The disabling aspects of my hearing
impairment were prevailing and
generated a number of consequences:
Overprotection
Lack of objectiveness in the assessment
of my abilities as a student
Gaps in the learning process due to the
adoption of a strictly communicative
approach
Help!
Once I finished university,
I embarked upon a new experience:
the transition into the working world
My handicaps
A final mark which did not reflect my efforts and
was taken into account for recruitment purposes
as well as for competitive entrance examinations,
selections, etc;
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A sudden and fierce transition from the sheltered
world of school to the working world;
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Predominance of verbal communication
Which direction?
We do not need to find a place for the
disabled:
EXTERNAL ACTION TOWARDS THE
DISABLED
School, training and professionalism allow
for:
EXPOSURE OF THE DISABLED
TOWARDS THE OUTSIDE WORLD
Finally...
Open recruitment by local health authority,
reserved for disabled candidates.
I was allocated at the hospital front office,
with the authorisation of the Employment
Office.
A deaf person at the front office!
The public sector was not able to protect
one of its workers:
Stressed worker;
Deterioration of the worker's
interpersonal relationships;
Decrease in the quality of the services
provided
Resignation
Loss of significance of the job on the whole.
Need to make every effort so as to
concretely address the emergencies in our
society.
Better job options for disabled,
better opportunity for investors
http://www.jobdisabili.it/
Problem
December
workers
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2009:
751.258
protected
Companies prefer to pay fines rather than
to hire people with disabilities
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People forced to "wait for time to pass"
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Disbursement of pensions by the State
Solution
People can become self-sufficient thanks to
job
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They become a stimulus for the economy
as they are able to purchase more goods
and services
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Growth of both economy and society
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Our solution: Jobdisabili.it
Key differentiation factors
• conversation from disable community to
corporations and viceversa
•
niche focus
•
free of charge
•
no proper "job posting bulletin board"
•
résumé and “Talking about me”
Business Model
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For profit
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Advertising business
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Sells banner advertising
Corporate Social Responsability (C. S. R)
opportunity:
a) Advertising products
b) Image Value
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Founded: February 2011
Currently: over 2.500 registered users
Partner support
Advertising clients
The team
Daniele Regolo
Degree in Political Science /
Author / Speaker in
conventions (interviewed on
RAI) / auditory disabled from
birth
Outsource and advisors
Francesco Di Bitonto (www.facilitatoreprocessi.it): communication
Silvia Sanginiti & Agnese Morettini: translator-assistant
Roberto Vitali (Village 4 All ): disabled entrepreneur
Financials
Special value to advertiser:
Highly defined demographic of registered
users
Added value to advertiser:
Social involvement that can be leveraged in
marketing
Social R.O.I.
Supporting Jobdisabili means:
Investing in key differentiation
 Social redemption of disabled
Pension reduction
 Economic development
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Economy can become an instrument of
democracy
Global Social Venture
Competition
Italian Round 2012
1° Jobdisabili
2° Mapability
3° Nucafe
Jobdisabili is an enterprise that draws from
my personal life and experiences:
As a disabled person
As a temporary worker
As an employee
Law 68/99 on the targeted
employment of disabled people
Summary
Interested parties:
People in working age who suffer from either a
physical or sensory disability which decreases
their work capacity more than 45%;
Law 68/99 on the targeted
employment of disabled people
Summary
Disabled workers having a degree of invalidity of
33% or more;
Blind or deaf people;
War disabled, war disabled civilians and disabled
servicemen.
Obligations
Employers in the public and private sectors with
more than 50 employees must meet a 7%
disability employment quota;
At least two disabled workers must be hired in
workplaces of 36 to 50 employees and one
disabled worker in workplaces of 15 to 35
employees.
Penalties
For each business day during which this
compulsory employment quota is not respected,
for reasons attributable to the employer, the
employer is obliged to pay a sum for each
disabled worker who is not employed on that
same day. The sum will have to be paid to the
Regional Fund as an administrative fine. A great
number of companies prefer to pay fines rather
than hiring disabled workers.
And...
The otherwise-abled worker who can
demonstrate to be a valid professional
"distracts" the hiring company from the
(already subsidized) costs it incurs in order
to ease the worker's integration in the
workplace
(IT and environmental costs, etc.)
Our reality is of utmost
complexity
Many disabled people are so discouraged,
dispirited and unmotivated that they
decline job offers without having even
weighed them up. Many others, instead,
claim for a permanent job as they are tired
of being offered only fixed term contracts.
Once upon a long ago
The integration of disabled workers in the
workplace should represent the
final goal
of a long and constant training process,
combined with the ongoing commitment, on
the side of the company, to remove any
obstacles that might make their journey
through life harder.
Myrdal
Swedish economist and Nobel Prize,
once said:
The break-even point of a company
does not exist,
there only exists a break-even point.
Hence we should ask ourselves: what is
really relevant, the mere productivity?
Or our quality of life? Or both?
Are we so sure that these two aspects
cannot coexist?