TY - JOUR TI - The issues of intimacy in alternative communication AU - Zaorska, Marzenna TI - The issues of intimacy in alternative communication AB - 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 VL - 2019 IS - Issue 33 (2019) PY - 2019 SN - 2080-9476 C1 - 2544-0519 SP - 145 EP - 156 DO - 10.4467/25439561.NP.19.010.10485 UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/niepelnosprawnosc/article/problematyka-intymnosci-w-komunikacji-alternatywnej KW - communication KW - alternative communication KW - disabled person KW - deaf blind person KW - intimacy KW - intimacy of communication with people with disabilities