The delegate of Justice, Local Administration and Public Function, Carmen Navarro, has defended the recognition of the legal capacity of people with disabilities during her participation in a training session to inform groups with disabilities about the changes and modifications that the reform of Law 8/2021, of 2 June. This activity has been organised on the occasion of the awareness week of the International Asperger’s Syndrome Day, on 18 February.
Carmen Navarro explained that «this regulation recognises that people with disabilities have legal capacity on an equal footing with others in all aspects of life, while at the same time ensuring that abuses are prevented in accordance with international human rights law».
«The Andalusian Government is working», as the delegate explained, «to advance in the social and labour incorporation of people with Asperger Syndrome and autism spectrum disorders, improving their integration in the educational sphere, improving the training of professionals for detection and care in Andalusian classrooms».
The delegate of Justice explained that «the new regulation does not seek to incapacitate, but to enable. In other words, to regulate the specific support that the disabled person needs in order to be able to exercise the legal capacity inherent to their person». According to Navarro in his speech, «voluntary support measures, established by the person themselves, are promoted, as they should be, encouraging their freedom. It eliminates rigid figures such as guardianship, extended and rehabilitated parental authority».
«Moreover -adds the delegate- it includes the new figure of the judicial defender, for when there is a conflict of interests between the support figure and the person with disability or there is a temporary impossibility of the usual support person».
Asperger
Amparo García, president of the Asperger Association of Almería, has highlighted «the importance of holding these informative conferences, and to give visibility to this developmental disorder, which a large part of the population suffers from and which needs to be heard and integrated into society».
Asperger’s is a disorder that manifests itself differently in each individual, but all have in common difficulties in social interaction, especially with people of the same age, alterations in non-verbal communication patterns, restricted interests, cognitive and behavioural inflexibility, as well as difficulties in the abstraction of concepts.