Linguistic knowledge of the selected groups of people with disabilities in the course of educational research – constraints and opportunities
Linguistic knowledge of the selected groups of people with disabilities in the course of educational research – constraints and opportunities

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to identify certain limitations in the research conducted in a groupof people with intellectual disabilities and people with hearing impairments. On the basis ofreports from the field of developmental psycholinguistics it has been assumed that some of thelimitations of research in the above-mentioned study groups will result from the shortcomingsof linguistic knowledge of these people. It should be emphasised that linguistic difficultieshave completely different backgrounds in the selected groups of people with disabilities, whichwas sought to be explained here.The authors attempt to identify opportunities posed by qualitative methods increasingly usedin the social sciences, including special education. The success of the research procedure,both in the paradigm of the quantitative and qualitative strategies, depends on the level ofcommunication skills and language subjects of the research (respondents, but also researchers).

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