Acquisition of daily-life skills. Case studies: Different gender-based disabilities

Marta Liesa Orús, Elías Vived Conte

Abstract

We present an investigation based in the study of cases developed at the Huesca’s Human Sciences Faculty and Education (University of Zaragoza). It's a new experience in our city, that we have denominated «Towards a independent life». This project is about young universitary people that live together with discapacity youngers along of a school year in a student house for they purchase and make widespread for the day to day in the house for the personal life and for the life in comunity. This article hope discover if the acquisition of this type of skills in the case of discapacity youngers are conditionality for the sex. And if the attitude towards the domestic works are similars with independence of the sex of the people.

Keywords

Quality of life; Independent life; Race and discapacity

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.14198/fem.2009.13.13





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