Everyone in sign language class to communicate with Mahi, a 14-year-old Bengali, and help him with Italian.

The beautiful story of teaching and inclusion comes from Cagliari. The protagonist is a deaf student from the Cpia, the provincial adult education centre , who, thanks to the efforts of the teachers and his classmates, "has been reborn and is living a new life", as he says.

He is perfectly integrated in the classroom today: alongside him there are both the support teacher and a communication assistant. The Cpia is the first school in Sardinia with a similar figure.

But the path was not easy for Mahi, who arrived in Italy from Bangladesh with his family when he was 14 years old. The difficulties initially seemed insurmountable.

“I felt like I was dying inside,” Mahi recalls. His father turned to the Ens - the national body for the deaf - which referred him to the Cpia. Here Mahi started a completely new path until Covid and lockdown arrived, which risked condemning him to isolation again. But the manager Giuseppe Ennas immediately authorized the purchase of all the equipment necessary to support him , while the support teacher contacted a speech therapist to introduce Mahi to sign language.

But that's not all: she too decided to take the course together with Mahi, suggesting all the other teachers do the same. The teachers didn't have to repeat it twice: everyone, from the mathematics teacher to the French, Italian and English teachers, went to Lis's school.

"Something that makes me feel great," says Mahi who managed to get his middle school diploma and continue his preparation by successfully attending the two-year high school. Now he is ready to embark on the road to graduation: he has already found a school he would like to attend in Turin, where there is a path linked to the institute for the deaf.

(Unioneonline/D)

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