ul. Bażyńskiego 1a 80-952 Gdańsk
Poland
ISNI ID: 0000 0001 2370 4076
GRID ID: grid.8585.0
Mateusz Rutkowski
Yearbook of Gdańsk, LXXXII (82), 2022, pp. 72 - 87
https://doi.org/10.26881/rgtn.2022.04Mateusz Rutkowski
Yearbook of Gdańsk, LXXXIII (83), 2023, pp. 237 - 246
https://doi.org/10.26881/rgtn.2023.12Mateusz Rutkowski
Disability, Issue 35 (2019), 2019, pp. 56 - 69
https://doi.org/10.4467/25439561.NP.19.031.12274The article presents the functional specificity of simultaneous sight and hearing disabilities. Damage to two key senses causes difficulties in all spheres of human life and is a barrier in meeting one's needs. An opportunity to overcome this difficult situation is to promote access to the serv-ices of guides-interpreters. The results of the conducted research confirm that assistance services have a positive impact on the level of functioning of deaf-blind people, thanks to which their qual-ity of life improves. The cognitive goal of the article is to describe the assistantship of guides-interpreters and to present the results of research on the impact of this type of support on the quality of life of deafblind people. The conclusions also have a practical dimension, which is to emphas iz e the importance of as sistant guides-interpreters for the functioning of deaf-blind people and to indicate the importance of including this form of support in social policies regarding disability.
