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Gaia Benedetti's thesis project for La Repubblica

Academic year

2022-2023

A 'living' manual created from first-hand experience, revealing the invisibility of SLDs and illuminating the complexity of their interaction with individual identity.

The project explores the relationship between identity and Specific Learning Disorders (SLD), which affect the ability to read, write and calculate.

The author, being affected by SLDs, has created a "handbook for everyone", reporting information from authoritative sources such as AID Italy and legislation concerning the rights of these people.

Through the use of evocative images, the author intends to show that SLDs are not outwardly visible, but can only be detected through specific tests conducted by experts.