%0 Journal Article
%T Developmental situation of the deafblind children with regard to research
%A Paradowska, Elżbieta
%J Disability
%V 2016
%N Issue 21 (2016)
%P 132-150
%K deafblindness, deafblind child, developmental situation, heterogeneity, auditory – visual functioning, additional disorders, communication
%@ 2080-9476
%D 2016
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/niepelnosprawnosc/article/sytuacja-rozwojowa-dzieci-gluchoniewidomych-w-swietle-badan
%X 
	The article presents the results of research aimed at recognizing the developmental situation of the group of the deafblind children in different areas, thus showing the diversity of the situation of children within the studied group. Research investigations became an opportunity to compare the obtained results with previous results of research in this area. The study involved 56 children aged up to 18. years who participated together with their mothers in educational-rehabilitative camps, organized by the Association for the Welfare of the Deafblind in 2004–2011. To gather the necessary data about the children from the studied group, questionnaire survey was used.

	The study pointed to the complex developmental situation of children in study group, particularly linked with the prevalence of congenital deafblindness in the vast majority of them and the presence of additional disorders in the most cases, including intellectual disability in the majority of children and occurence of – significant limitations on the child’s communication with their environment.