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