When he moved to Padua, he founded the Deaf Association of the Veneto Region. In the year of 1923, he obtained from the Mussolini government a law that enabled the deaf and blind people to attend elementary schools.

In 1932, on the day of Saint Anthony of Padua, together with his deaf friends, he founded the Italian National Agency for the Deaf where he was President from 1932 to 1950.