Children with disabilities in families and at school: spillover effects on parents, siblings and schoolmates
Tuesday, 21 April, 2026, 1-2 pm, CET (Zoom)
(with German-English simultaneous translation)
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Children with disabilities are too often an invisible population, despite numbering more than 240 million worldwide and around 3.5 million in Europe. What does it mean to live day to day with a child or a sibling with a disability within the family? And what spillover effects arise in classroom dynamics when children are exposed to the disability of a classmate? This talk addresses these questions, examining the consequences for families and schools, and concludes by highlighting relevant policy implications.
Speaker: Nicoletta Balbo, Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at Bocconi University
"The Future of Our Living Together" - Tuesday Dialogue Series of the Einstein Center Population Diversity: In the framework of this digital event series, we discuss key questions related to the future of our societies in a circle of experts and interested stakeholders.