Estudar e Trabalhar na Itália: instrumentos e procedimentos para a inclusão de pessoas com deficiência Studying and living in Italy: tools and procedures to include disabled people

Italy is known for the best practices on educational and la- bour inclusion. An organic set of laws allows a full access to education and work, ensuring rights and necessary re- sources to disabled people, their families and organisations hosting them. The evolution of the Italian regulatory frame- work has resulted in the development of a theoreticand conceptual structure on special pedagogy and didactics, to follow the constant changes and demands of the institu- tions and society. This paper examines the evolution of laws that transformed Italy in the forefront in social inclusion as well as the different moments and scope of them concern- ing the participation of people with disabilities in education and work.