First Outputs of a Research in Progress- Universitabile: Inquire into the Social Inclusion of Students with Disabilities and SLD in the Roman University Context

The proposal is based on the first outputs of the doctoral thesis "Universitabile", which has as its target population students with disabilities and SLD enrolled in the A.Y. 2020-2021 at La Sapienza, Tor Vergata and Roma Tre. Objectives of the paper are to analyse the variables affecting inclusion/participation and university performance and to analyze the role of study support services, distinguishing different targets. Since the beginning of the 21st century, Italian universities are increasingly plural places (Bolt and Penketh, 2016) and have to deal with diversity and the ways of including students with disabilities or SLDs (Oliver and Barnes, 2010). These have become a significant part of the Italian student population (Censis, 2017). The hypothesis is that university policies can produce ambivalent effects. In fact, these may contain "in germ the cues for a reversal of perspective, which from the anti-discriminatory strategy and the egalitarian ideal risk opening the door to the most extreme differentialism" (Piccone Stella, 2003). The research aims to assess how accessibility to structures and the quality of services contribute to inclusion, through the use of mixed methods approach (Mauceri, 2017), involving the administration of questionnaires to students, combined with in-depth interviews administered to support service providers.