Inclusion and Universal Design for Learning in Italian Schools

Educational Technologies And Integration In Italy: A Historical Outline

There are many international documents that have highlighted the importance of technologies in all fields, including the educational one, putting in evidence the need for flexible pathways and accessible resources.

The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability (1993) and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (2001), in particular, have advocated for the importance of making technological environments accessible to avoid the risk that the use of technologies can generate new forms of social exclusion. Moreover, the European Commission has highlighted in several documents how the power of technologies has to be used to support people with disabilities, removing all obstacles and barriers to accessibility, which is the capacity of a tool or a resource to be open and usable by any kind of user, including people with sensory, motor or cognitive disabilities (Commission of the European Communities, 2000; 2001).