A Visually Impaired Student – an Active Communicator. Possibilities of Supporting the Student in the Public High School Space

Abstract

This article presents the possibilities of supporting the visually impaired student-communicator in the public space of a secondary school. The difficulties of communication specific to people with disabilities are taken into account, resulting from physical barriers in the public, private and
intimate space of the school. Adaptations in the field of methods, forms of work and didactic aids were indispensable for comfortable everyday work and activation of a young communicator in the classroom, with particular emphasis on linguistic interaction (in a symmetrical system: student – student and asymmetrical: teacher – student). The exemplification is a case study of a partially sighted high school graduate attending one of the public high schools in Łódź.