Managing Inclusion at University for Social and Labour Insertion of People with Intellectual Disabilities

As a forum for thought and transmission of knowledge, the university has to develop an important role in situations in which certain vulnerable groups have their rights reduced. This happens with people with disabilities and, in particular, with students who, due to physical, mental, intellectual or sensorial limitations, cannot have access under equal conditions to education. This situation exists at primary and secondary school, where the limitation of human and material resources has often led the transfer of students with disabilities to special educational centers; but it also exists at university. In fact, until recently, most students left university before reaching higher education or shortly after. Fortunately, this context is changing and, together with necessary regulatory changes inspired by the 2006 Convention social responsibility requires universities to take measures in order to guarantee equal opportunities, non-discrimination and universal accessibility -as the LIONDAU prescribed in the past and the Royal Legislative Decree 1/2013 do it currently- in the university educational environment. Measures that must be bidirectional, not only ad extra but above all ad intra, through the appropriate material and formative adjustments at the university. In this sense, the University of Castilla-La Mancha is facing both perspectives, on the one hand, training actions for PDI and PAS to improve the care and support to students with disabilities and, on the other hand, ensuring the socio-occupational training of people with intellectual disability to facilitate their insertion in the labor market. This is the objective of "Incluye e Inserta UCLM" program.