READING COMPREHENSION

• Who does Anne Mary work with? Find four different expressions in the text that refer to the same collective.

She works with mentally challenged children or adults, and if their disability is mild, moderate or severe.

• Is it the same to deal with a person with an intellectual disability or with a mental illness?

No, because intellectual disability is impaired intellectual and adaptive functioning and mental illness is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning.

• How long do the clients stay in the centre?

The clients stay with us in the centre for many years, until they find a job or move to a supported living resource and can live independently.

• Which are the goals of the service? What do they do with their clients?

It depends on the person, we work on really individual approach. We need to train the ADLs that need more reinforcement for those people who are not able to carry on with them, whereas with the most autonomous we try to do some occupational activities, to prepare them for an independent living and a proper job. We also work to give support to parents or informal carers, giving them a daytime rest during the weekdays and counseling them about how to take care of the users of the service.

• What is a language barrier? And a cultural one?

A language barrier is a figurative phrase used primarily to refer to the difficulties in communication experienced by people or groups originally speaking different languages, or even dialects in some cases and a cultural barrier they are related to religious terms.