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“I took off”: the alchemy of roommates for young adults with disabilities

2022-05-20T04:28:20.949Z


FIGARO DEMAIN - Sharing their life with students has enabled the fifteen residents of Cape Town to achieve independence.


"I took off and it was easy."

At 33, Jean was still living with his parents.

In February, he moved into a studio apartment on his own.

Alone?

Not quite.

Because this tall young man with fragile X syndrome needed a minimum of support to leave the family cocoon.

It was a brand new flatshare for disabled people, opened in January in Boulogne-Billancourt, which allowed him to emancipate himself.

“I wanted to be alone but not too locked up at home.

Here, I met beautiful people”

, summarizes this tall dark-haired man with blue eyes, a fan of running and walking.

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Support without assistance: the Le Cap residence-reception, designed and managed by the Habitat et Humanisme federation, has sought the right balance between independence and the need for medico-social support for young adults suffering from autism spectrum disorders (ASD) or mental handicap.

In this large white quadrangle, property of the diocese of Nanterre (Hauts-de-Seine), 15 young adults…

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Source: lefigaro

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