TY - JOUR TI - Special educator to stupidity – on trade terms with the reality of teaching on the example of hearing loss and intellectual disability AU - Wlazło, Marcin TI - Special educator to stupidity – on trade terms with the reality of teaching on the example of hearing loss and intellectual disability AB - Stupidity is a term which widespread presence in everyday language has led to the weakening of its proper, etymological meaning. The lexicalization of this word has blurred the meaning connected with impaired, muffled, slurred speech or even dumbness, while perpetuatings tupidity semantic relationship of words such as: nonsense, absurdity, irrationality, primitiveness, ignorance or expressions as: a lack of common sense or deficiency of reason. On the basis of special education the relationship between the words „umb” and „deaf” is not only purely linguistic, but it is also an important part of the history of its two major sub-disciplines. There are also today the situations, because of diagnostic errors or carelessness, when wordless (dumb) or speaking indistinctly person older than 3 years is automatically treated as a person with the deviation from the intellectual norm. VL - 2016 IS - Issue 21 (2016) PY - 2016 SN - 2080-9476 C1 - 2544-0519 SP - 78 EP - 89 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/niepelnosprawnosc/article/pedagog-specjalny-wobec-glupoty-o-zwiazkach-terminologii-z-rzeczywistoscia-pedagogiczna-na-przykladzie-wady-sluchu-i-niepelnosprawnosci-intelektualnej KW - stupidity KW - deafness KW - intellectual disability