Support Center for People with Disabilities of the University in Siedlce

Polish language classes are compulsory for 2 years of Bachelor's degree studies (4 semesters), amounting to 30 hours per semester. These classes are taught by qualified speech and language therapists of our University.


Classes are held in the Logopaedic Centre. Polish language classes play an important role in the rehabilitation process of deaf persons. Hearing-impaired people master the system of general Polish language in a way that is specific to their abilities and limitations. The lack of auditory patterns requires continuous consolidation of already mastered patterns and skills. As they are not fully reinforced in everyday communication, many of the existing skills are lost or become the basis for analogous linguistic behaviour, completely inadequate to the situation and role of the young person. This encourages the perpetuation of the stereotype of the inferior, less intelligent student. Applying to the role of an intelligent person requires a person with hearing impairment to continuously improve his/her linguistic and communicative competences, so that he/she can understand utterances in line with changing social and cultural conditions, and express his/her needs in a manner consistent with linguistic conventions and pragmalinguistic principles.


Polish language classes aim at the development of linguistic skills at the lexical, morphological, semantic and syntactic levels, practising so-called textological skills and correcting sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic abilities. Special attention is paid by the instructors to showing the differences between written and spoken language (reversibility of the previous way of accumulating knowledge about language) and practising the skills of editing functional writings, taking notes, writing narrative texts. The classes conducted at the Logopaedic Centre are based on many years of experience, a developed author's programme and aids collected over the years.