Dozens of books written through augmentative communication will be on display and can be consulted for free until June 28th at the headquarters in via Garibaldi, tomorrow also a reading workshop by Inbook Books for everyone, without barriers and without limits, to give a voice to those who are not there It has. The exhibition “Inbook Books for everyone” was inaugurated on Monday afternoon at the headquarters of the Order of Health Professions, a project promoted by the “Paino-Gravitelli” comprehensive institute, in collaboration with the Suprazonal Center for Augmentative Communication of Milan and Verdello and the library network.
Until June 28th, various Inbooks, children’s literature books translated into symbols to broaden access to texts and support linguistic understanding in children with communication disabilities, will be on display and available for consultation at the Via Garibaldi headquarters. With the aim of promoting reading without barriers, the Order of Health Professions of Messina has opened its doors to the “Inbook. Books for everyone” and the exhibition will be open to visitors for free every day from 5pm to 6.30pm, while on Thursday 27th, at 5.30pm, two speech therapists involved in the project will hold an Inbook reading aloud workshop for children.
The initiative was presented to the citizens in connection with the representatives of the Augmentative Communication Center of Milan and the appeal of Francesco Saporito, an accountant from Patti, suffering from ALS, who found in augmentative communication a opportunity to express himself and has since dedicated himself to the mission of promoting writing and reading for all. During the inauguration of the exhibition, a plaque was given to the family and friends of Francesco Saporito, whose battle was told through a video and the words of his sister Antonella and his friend Alessandro Greco.
“The Order of Health Professions – declared in chorus the president Giuseppe Morabito and the vice-president Patrizia Longo – immediately decided to embrace this initiative, well aware of how important it is to raise awareness and promote inclusion and culture among our professionals and citizens, putting our skills at the service of the community”.
