AN OUTLINE OF THE LEGAL PROTECTION OF DISABLED PEOPLE IN POLAND

Abstract

The way people with disabilities function in society – people with higher requirements for readaptation – follow the times, but does it keep up with them? Otherness ceases to be something strange, it slowly becomes normal, but not for everyone. Support for disabled people by the state and social favor eliminate many barriers, and most importantly – the mental border, but is it up to the expectations? We constantly strive for modernity and progress, to change reality, and we cannot identify ourselves with people of special concern, as if the topic of disability did not concern modernity and sustainable human development. In the article, the author tries to come closer to the answers to two questions related to disability. Are people with disabilities in Poland "other" people and do these people find the expected support in the law and how does the law treat such people – inevitably, severely, or perhaps indulgently? The author's assumption is, first of all, to indicate the essence and importance of an important issue, and to leave room for own research.