La quiete dopo la tempesta: il caso di Elena
Record number: 294
Last update: May 2013
Type of document: Thesis
Last update: May 2013
Type of document: Thesis
Author: Rescigno L
Editorial data: Tesi Corso di Perfezionamento "Tecnologie per l'Autonomia". Università Cattolica e Fondazione Don Gnocchi, a.a. 2008-2009
Year of publication: 2009
Abstract:
(text automatically translated from Italian) The work introduces the history of a child 15 years old who in a day, apparently similar to an other, the output from school (you want for an accidental error of the maneuver of a van, you want for the distraction of a child between the laughed one of its friends) is found again without warning in the vortex of a sea in squall that it stirs to its dreams, the aspirations and desires of child, distresses, pain, fear and desperation. The awakening you give four long ones and death days of coma it is for the family the quiet ones after the storm, tu for ***Elena represents only the beginning of a long full path of transformations, of grip of conscience and situations in which it is hard to acknowledg, in a truth and a body that does not recognize like its and in situations that it sees unsurmountable. The attempt of the thesis is that one to describe step after step, moment after moment, solution after solution the return of ***Elena to a life still all living and to feeling itself part in spite of everything activates of one truth that it lives. In the specific one the chosen solutions for the movements will be described, to re-enter to the address, for the personal independence and the communication, in the ***fattispecie the wheelchair with the system of posture, the solutions for the elimination of the architectural barriers to the address and the assistive devices for the communication: the alphabetical communicator, at first, and the software in a continuation.
(text automatically translated from Italian) The work introduces the history of a child 15 years old who in a day, apparently similar to an other, the output from school (you want for an accidental error of the maneuver of a van, you want for the distraction of a child between the laughed one of its friends) is found again without warning in the vortex of a sea in squall that it stirs to its dreams, the aspirations and desires of child, distresses, pain, fear and desperation. The awakening you give four long ones and death days of coma it is for the family the quiet ones after the storm, tu for ***Elena represents only the beginning of a long full path of transformations, of grip of conscience and situations in which it is hard to acknowledg, in a truth and a body that does not recognize like its and in situations that it sees unsurmountable. The attempt of the thesis is that one to describe step after step, moment after moment, solution after solution the return of ***Elena to a life still all living and to feeling itself part in spite of everything activates of one truth that it lives. In the specific one the chosen solutions for the movements will be described, to re-enter to the address, for the personal independence and the communication, in the ***fattispecie the wheelchair with the system of posture, the solutions for the elimination of the architectural barriers to the address and the assistive devices for the communication: the alphabetical communicator, at first, and the software in a continuation.