To what extent can man experience high quality of life? The answer to this question seems to depend very much on the way the term is defined. This paper is to cover main perspectives and most significant findings of research ...

ln this paper an alternative model of deafness and of the function of deaf education will be suggested. Rather than focusing on deafness as a pathological medical condition, we will consider the education of the deaf as a ...

The article discusses issues of the diagnosis, within linguistic, classification and descriptive systems, of communication of autistic people. The departure from symptom-based diagnosis in favour of the analysis of the ...

Cybertherapy is a field that is growing rapidly due today's technology and information boom. Virtual reality (VR) has been used successfully in a variety of healthcare issues, including treatment of phobias, eating disorders ...

This article describes a case of 27 years old deaf woman Agata, who finished her studies in fine arts school, and also obtained M.A. degree in philosophy at University of Lodz, Poland. During one year she was in Norway ...