Family, community, and institutions

Atención integral a niñas y niños en situación de discapacidad.

Abstract

Most societies assume disability as a barrier or a human limitation. The greater barriers emerge from the set of social attitudes and archetypical images that limit and disable both participation and equality, based on an interpretation of external factors that are inherent to the limitation, but not on a comprehension of their possibilities of personal performance. It has to be considered that limitation itself should not impose a breaking with the person. Disability is produced in the interaction between the person and the environment. The article analyses the issue of disabled children in the Colombo-Swiss Integral Care Center in Tunja and the familiar, communitarian and institutional co-responsibility in the processes of integral attention. The document contains three parts, an initial one that approaches the concepts of disability, familiar, institutional and communitarian responsibility, and the legal frame related to the topic. The second part mentions the analysis elements of these previous categories, from the experience in the Colombo-Swiss Integral Care Center of Tunja. Finally, the article sets a reflection about the coresponsibility in the integral attention of disability as human condition.