Various experiences related to research work, including the less successful ones, are all part of the research process. Awareness of their existence allows to draw conclusions from one’s mistakes and a more responsibly design of a research. This article aims to understand the traps a researcher, exploring intellectual disability, may fall into. As a result of search and reflection, three kinds of traps can be listed: resistance — submission, norm — pathology, correctness — negligence.

Wśród osób z niepełnosprawnością jest sporo tych, które nie dochodzą do etapu pełnej autonomii pozostając do końca życia zależne od innych. W znacznej mierze są to osoby na stałe przebywające w rodzinie generacyjnej. Pozostanie pod opieką rodziców jest często spotykane w przypadku osób, które charakteryzują się dysfunkcjami umysłowymi. W ramach projektowanego badania starano się przyjrzeć sytuacji rodziców dzieci z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną. Jako materiał badawczy posłużyły osobiste doświadczenia rodziców zebrane w formie wywiadów swobodnych nieustrukturyzowanych. Analizę danych prowadzono zgodnie z zasadami metodologii ugruntowanej. Na podstawie przeprowadzonych badań udało się przedstawić i zrekonstruować przebieg dwóch subprocesów: definiowania ról rodzicielskich i konstruowania tożsamości rodzica dziecka z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną z podaniem ich najważniejszych składowych, wymiarów, a także podejmowanych w ich ramach strategii.

The study consists of three parts. The first comprises the characteristic features of social politics strategy. They include the basic assumptions and functions of the social politics strategy in the field of the development of education and aid activities at the level of local units of territorial authorities. The essence of the study is the second part. It consists of the own research results – an analysis of the aims and tasks associated with inclusive education (also with preparing local communities for creating inclusive culture), comprised in strategies. The whole is completed with final conclusions. The study is aimed at the qualitative analysis of the development strategy of 17 communes (3900 pages of documents) as regards the issues of disability. The research interest was to find out whether the slogans promoting the equal access to education, elimination of barriers and preparing mainstream schools and local community for inclusive culture had been reflected in any way in the social politics strategies of local authorities – in the documents which, at least in the assumptions, constitute the starting point for generating good practices, also in the field of social support and education for disabled learners.

The article is dedicated to the problems of the functioning of people with disabilities in the Polish penitentiary system. It present theoretical considerations, regarding the nature of imprisonment, adaptation problems, types of adaptation strategies, therapeutic system and its limitations, as well as premises for the implementation of own research.

The article will consider research directions on a social history of disability based on the social and the human-rights models of disability, as well as the concept of disability included in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The article contains the basic methodology of historical research on the subject, the main research fields, and an overview of primary sources. In addition, the periodisation of the subject was introduced.

The persons with intellectual disability have serious difficulties in language skills and consequently in the process of learning. The problems can be caused by Central Auditory Processing Disorders. In this paper we present research results on effectiveness of the Warnke method as a supporting tool in the development of language skills and in the process of education of children with such intellectual disabilities of mild degree.