Academy Fencing LIA
The aim of the Academy is to favor the social inclusion of individuals affected by autism spectrum disorder in a recreational context, using the peculiarities of fencing to implement some skills and give them the opportunity to practice sports at a competitive level.
Like all combat sports, fencing has in fact important metacognitive aspects: it strengthens the perception of the other, teaches to read the movements of the adversary, to understand their moods and to distinguish the potentially threatening movements, enhances the cognitive abilities of strategy and problem solving; only in theory an individual sport but in reality both the combat modes, in which the opponent is only a few meters, and the way of structuring the activity make it to all effects a social-relational sport that enhances the skills of integration interpersonal.
