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New concepts have been developed, such as empowerment, enabling, inclusion, habilitation, and human rights, that have changed the meaning of making tools available to encourage full participation, hoping to solve challenges of today, such as barriers, obstacles, and discrimination. The development of assistive devices has reconfigured the limits of the human body for all persons and has made it clear that persons with functional limitations can overcome the body's hereditary materiality limits, activating enabling and resilient factors that configure a different normality of \u201cdoing\u201d. The post-human perspectives question traditional rehabilitation forms, which are no longer centered on recovering a lost or limited function according to a predefined model of \u201cnormality\u201d and health (ableism), but reformulating the idea of how a person can function. It is from the analysis of the human being\u2019s functioning profile that new forms of protection for persons with disabilities and their human rights can be explored, such as the customized participatory projects envisaged by the Italian welfare reform legislation. In this context, Article 26 of the UNCRPD proposes a new approach to support the human rights and inclusion of persons with disabilities. 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