Inclusion processes for persons with intellectual disability through multiple negotiation networks

This article explores multiple aspects of the inclusion processes related to the CRPD (Convention on the Rights of persons with disabilities) implementation process carried out in Asti (NW Italy) between 2016 and 2020. For the purpose of this article, data have been collected regarding the work of social work professionals, who supported individuals and families following the methodology of “enabling co-design”. The results show the necessity to allow interventions that create a support network to achieve full and equal citizenship, rethinking the transition to adult life through new epistemological categories that make it possible to overcome, both in theory and in practice, what is currently defined as a special adulthood. This goal may be achieved by adopting approaches that are more coherent with the scenario defined by the approval of the CRPD for the rights of persons with disabilities.