%0 Journal Article
%T The issues of intimacy in alternative communication
%A Zaorska, Marzenna
%J Disability
%V 2019
%R 10.4467/25439561.NP.19.010.10485
%N Issue 33 (2019)
%P 145-156
%K communication, alternative communication, disabled person, deaf blind person, intimacy, intimacy of communication with people with disabilities
%@ 2080-9476
%D 2019
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/niepelnosprawnosc/article/problematyka-intymnosci-w-komunikacji-alternatywnej
%X 
	The issue of communication with the use of alternative methods of information transfer generates many doubts not only of substantive, methodical, but also ethical nature, doubts including, inter alia, intimacy issues, consent to intimacy and the principles and conditions governing the crossing or not crossing the limits of intimacy. Basically, it applies to people with deeper, severe disabilities, often coupled with sensory disabilities in combination with limitations in terms of intellectual, somatic and physical functioning. The awareness of the presence of intimacy in alternative communication seems to be important not only for the quality of communication relations, but above all for their humanization, respect for the subjectivity and autonomy of a disabled person using alternative methods of transmission and reception of information. Therefore, the content of the article indicates the specificity of signalling communication relations and their possible conditions for partners implementing such relation