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• Title:
  Supporting deaf-blind people in communication and guidance in the light of Polish legal solutions and new proposals
• Creator:
  Wojda, Piotr;
  Kozłowski, Grzegorz
• Description:
  This article discusses a little-known in Poland issue related to supporting deaf-blind persons with concomitant hearing and visual impairments in communication and guidance. The reflections refer to current legal solutions. The authors verify and confirm them or propose new recommendations for the future. They do not cut themselves off from the past, recalling major events in the history of supporting deaf-blind people.  The starting point for the discussion is the Sign Language and Other Means of Communication Act 2011 (hereinafter referred to as Act 2011) which is of groundbreaking importance for deaf-blind people and whose provisions pertain to this target community. Related to a larger or smaller extent to Act 2011, other legal acts are also confronted with this law. Important sources of reflection include the results of the work of the Polish Sign Language Council pursued during its first and second term of office, especially the Report submitted by the members serving the former one.  The considerations undertaken in the article are aimed at revising the three central concepts contained in Act 2011: deaf-blind person, modes of communication of the deaf-blind people, and the guide-interpreter. The authors are convinced that if they are properly understood and defined in Act 2011, the legal and, consequently, social interests of deaf-blind people will be duly safeguarded. Hence, where necessary, the authors redefine them, emphasising the importance of guidance in supporting deaf-blind people or the existence of new modes of communication. In the article, they also underline the significance of new technological solutions. All this does not escape the authors’ attention, as they themselves come from the communities that Act 2011 would legally support.  These several remarks on supporting deaf-blind people may significantly and very positively influence the level of the functioning of deaf-blind people if they are noticed and taken into account in the envisaged amendment to Act 2011 as well as other legal acts.;
  Rozważania są poświęcone mało znanej w Polsce problematyce odnoszącej się do wspierania w komunikowaniu się i przewodnictwie osób głuchoniewidomych doświadczających jednoczesnej dysfunkcji słuchu i wzroku. Autorzy opierają się głównie na analizie i interpretacji aktów prawnych, m.in. Ustawy o języku migowym i innych środkach porozumiewania się z 2011 roku. Celem artykułu jest dokonanie rewizji trzech centralnych pojęć zawartych w ustawie: osoba głuchoniewidoma, sposoby komunikowania się osób głuchoniewidomych (SKOGN), tłumacz-przewodnik. Właściwe rozumienie, względnie redefinicja i realne ich wprowadzenie do obiegu prawnego mogą istotnie wpłynąć na prawne i społeczne funkcjonowanie osób głuchoniewidomych.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0
• Date:
  2022.01.12
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Rocznik Przekładoznawczy; Nr 16 (2021); 229-255;
  Translation Journal; No. 16 (2021); 229-255;
  2392-1552;
  1896-4362
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu
• Relation: https://apcz.umk.pl/RP/article/view/37009/31329
• Subject:
  osoba głuchoniewidoma;
  dysfunkcja słuchu i wzroku;
  sposoby komunikowania się osób głuchoniewidomych;
  tłumacz-przewodnik osób głuchoniewidomych;
  prawo;
  ustawodawstwo;
  deaf-blind person;
  hearing and vision dysfunction;
  modes of communication of the deaf-blind people;
  deaf-blind guide-interpreter;
  law;
  legislation
• Identifier: https://apcz.umk.pl/RP/article/view/37009
• Data provider:
  Akademicka Platforma Czasopism
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