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After completing my three-year degree, I began my collaboration with the Ospedaliero di Sospiro which still continues today. In the last eight years I have therefore had the opportunity to work with people with intellectual disabilities, autism spectrum disorder and behavioral disorders, coordinating different departments and collaborating in the opening of the new offices in Brescia and Bedizzole.

What are the characteristics of the people I offer my support to?

Intellectual disability

Autism spectrum disorder

“Intellectual disability (intellectual development disorder) is a developmental onset disorder that includes deficits in both intellectual and adaptive functioning in contextual, social and practical spheres.

The following three criteria must be met:

1. Deficit of intellectual functions [...]

2. Adaptive functioning deficit [...]

Onset of intellectual and adaptive deficits during the developmental period [...] "

"Persistent deficits in social communication and social interaction in multiple contexts, as manifested by the following factors, present now or in the past:

  1. Deficit of socio-emotional reciprocity [...]

  2. Deficit in non-verbal communication [...] behaviors used for social interaction [...]

  3. Deficits in development, management and understanding of relationships [...]

Restricted, repetitive patterns of behavior, interests or activities, as manifested by at least two of the following factors, present now or in the past:

  1. Repetitive movements, use of objects or stereotyped speech [...]

  2. Insistence in sameness (unchangeability), adherence to routines lacking in flexibility or rituals of verbal or non-verbal behavior [...]

  3. Very limited, fixed interests that are anomalous in intensity or depth [...]

  4. Hyper- or hyporeactivity in response to sensory stimuli or unusual interests towards sensory aspects of the environment [...]

Symptoms must be present early in development [...]

Symptoms cause clinically significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important functioning [...] "

DSM V

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