Andrea Zondek: “if You Hire a Person with Asd without a Process of Cultural Change, There Is No Inclusion”

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It was in the early 1980s that Andrea Zondek noticed. An occupational therapist who had been working at a public hospital in Santiago for a while wanted to know what had happened to the patients who had rehabilitated and discharged. There she found the surprise: depressed men and women, without leaving home and who didn’t even encourage themselves to put on the prosthetics they had given them. “He stood up,” recalled Andrea, who said Don Francis…