Institute of Special Education

Director: Professor Diana Aksamit, PhD
Administrative Assistant: Anna Staniaszek, MA

Research areas:

  • Diagnosis and assistance to children and youth with special and specific learning disabilities;
  • Continuing social and vocational rehabilitation of persons with a disability into adulthood;
  • Disability and society;
  • Family environment of disabled persons;
  • Educating pupils with learning disabilities;
  • Integration and inclusion as an educational and a social process;
  • Educational, rehabilitative and therapeutic effectiveness of various methods of working with disabled pupils;
  • Teaching and special education professionals: competencies, training and professional development, personality profile
  • Specific areas of study in special education:
    • education of blind and visually impaired persons;
    • education of persons with impaired hearing;
    • education of persons with intellectual disabilities;
    • therapeutic education: education of persons with chronic disease and impaired mobility;
    • psycho-pedagogy of social rehabilitation;
    • pedagogical therapy;
    • early assisted development;
    • social and vocational rehabilitation