Wady wymowy oraz trudności w czytaniu i pisaniu u dorosłych z niepełnosprawnością intelektualną w stopniu umiarkowanym

The article discusses speech defects and reading and writing difficulties in persons with moderate intellectual disability. The analysis of the problems is based on studies conducted by one of the authors in a seven-person group of intellectually disabled adults. The subjects were presented with three tasks. The first task evaluated the motor skills of speech organs. The objective of the second task was to assess articulation skills. For this purpose, a questionnaire to test pronunciation was used. It consisted of a hundred pictures. The names of the objects shown in the pictures enabled the investigation of articulation of all sounds in each of the possible positions in a word. The last part of the investigation (task three) was a multifaceted assessment of reading and writing difficulties. The collected empirical data also enabled the attempt to answer the question whether among the problems of mentally handicapped persons there is a relationship between articulation difficulties and mistakes appearing in reading and writing.Key words: speech defects, reading and writing difficulties, moderate intellectual disability