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1. LABOUR INCLUSION

2. Telephone
Switchboard

3. Law 113/85
Blind people are allowed to work as telephone
operators for private companies and for public offices
and institutions
 Public institutes: They must hire at least one blind
telephone operator every switchboard and,
once available further job positions as
operators, they must reserve a 51%, of all
positions, to visually impaired people
 Private companies: they have to employ at least
one blind operator

4. The arrival of telephone exchanges
Before technologies:
There were at least 10.000/12.000 visually impaired
people to function as telephone operators
After technologies:
there are no more than 7.000/8.000 blind people
working in this branch.

5. Massotherapia

6. Hospitals and private clinics must hire at least a blind massotherapist
They must attend, for at least 3 years, a professional course at qualified
institutes for blind (Naples, Florence, Padua)
Legislative evolutions:
courses for physiotherapists have become academic and schools for
blind people have never been recognised.
So, the number of visually impaired massotherapists has decreased
from 2.000 units to a few hundred

7. Teaching

8. Visually impaired teachers, as all other citizens, participate to open
competitive exams, in which there is a 2% of reserved positions for
blind people.
Blind teachers, keep teaching in public middle schools, not in
elementary schools.
Blind people teach literary, Italian, greek, latin, history, philosophy
and music

9. Unprotected Professions
Blind people carry out jobs like
State officials: lawyers, psychologists, state officials, Judges
Traders: Resale newspapers (for civil blind people)
Resale of tobacco (for war blind)