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An Italian Perspective on Learning Disabilities

Franco Fabbro, PhD

Franco Fabbro is a clinical neuropsychologist and assistant professor of human physiology at the University of Trieste. He has a degree in medicine and a PhD in neurology. He is particularly interested in bilingual aphasia in adults and learning disabilities in children.

Cristina Masutto

Cristina Masutto is a child psychologist and has a research contract in the Infantile Neuropsychiatric Ward of Trieste'S Institute for Childcare and Research. She has a degree in psychology and specialization in clinical neuropsychology and learning psychopathology from the University of Padua. She is interested in the diagnosis and treatment of children with learning disabilities. Address: Franco Fabbro, Istituto di Fisiologia, Universitá di Trieste, via A. Flemming 22, 34127 Trieste, Italia.

The authors' experience derives from over 10 years of study of the neuropsychological characteristics of children with learning disabilities (LD) who were referred to a public children'S hospital. Some sociocultural and linguistic aspects of children with learning disabilities in Italy, and in particular in the northeastern Friuli-Venetia-Julia region, are described. The role of bilingualism and the type of grapheme-phoneme correspondence in "standard" Italian are discussed in relation to learning disabilities. Legislative aspects, the roles of the school, hospitals, public field services, and private institutes, as well as the concern of parents of children with LD, are also taken into account. According to the authors, Italy'S major deficiencies with respect to the question of learning disabilities are (a) lack of a systematic study of the problem in order to increase general knowledge, (b) insufficient training of teachers and rehabilitators, and (c) inadequate legislation.

Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 27, No. 3, 138-141 (1994)
DOI: 10.1177/002221949402700301
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