A journey together : catechesis for persons with intellectual disability

Abstract

In this dissertation I would like to concentrate how can we catechize and evangelize persons with different needs. I want to emphasize more on adult people with intellectual disability, adult people so there is an age gap. The problems that these people deal with are like- delays in oral language development, deficits in memory skills, difficulty learning social rules, difficulty with problem solving skills, delays in the development of adaptive behaviours such as self-help or self-care skills, lack of social inhibitors. These difficulties make them different to learn and to communicate. An important thing that I want to clarify is that training is relevant not only to these people who are receiving but also those who are delivering catechises. It is also important to understand who are persons with Intellectual Disability? What do they do? Their attitude? Their needs? How can we approach catechises on them? An important word that is mentioned when we speak on this subject is ‘inclusion’. Inclusion can be referred also to accessibility to learn and that they have rights to learn and not even right but as Christians they also must be part of the Church Catechises because the Church invites us to be part of her message and also evangelisation. Everybody is invited to salvation.