INCLUSION IN SPORT DANCE AND SELF PERCEPTION

In Italian the term integration has always been used with the meaning of “mutual integration”, that is the arrangement of the individual and of the context; The term inclusion does not seem to add anything that is not already present in the term integration. Different is what happens in the English language, as the term integratio seems to have lost some of its original meaning, being replaced by the term inclusion or inclusive to underline the mutual arrangement between individual with disabilities and context. Finally, in Italian it seems correct to use both terms, integration and the Anglicism inclusion, explaining that it refers to processes that involve changes in both people with disabilities both in the context of membership. The concept of integration has to be born by the transition from the focus of the stereotype that regards disability, to the eye than able to meet each other in all its diversity and complexity. Today, thousands of disabled people live a life the same way as able-bodied, the "normality" of disability in the social, cultural, business and sports is more of a reality, but this is due to the fact that these people have, throughout their life, met a context able to promote and enhance the differences. Each sports, as a chance for growth, represents a gratifying activities which that conveys to people with disabilities a sense of well-being that helps them, sometimes, to overcome their limitations; it helps to develop the process of autonomy, as part of the process of social integration by proposing relationships with friends, adults, educators, athletes, disabled or not. The dance sport strongly embraces this latter perspective, as being a sport with the characteristic of the group, fully enclosing the objective of promoting social integration as an opportunity for personal growth and social inclusion of people with disabilities and not only. Dancing is not exhibitionism or race to show the perfection of a technique or of a body, dancing is an art, is a manifestation of one's inner being, it is the joy of acceptance of one's own limits, of creativity, it is the expression that will take you to another and to the group. Aim is to test the term of inclusion and integration in dance sport and how the