What Do Young People with Intellectual Disabilities Write about in their Blogs

Abstract

The article presents the nature of the Internet as a new form of communication and a new social space. Unlimited number of contacts that can be established in the network and a specific language of the computer-mediated communication make it a successful form of contact. The number of Internet users is constantly increasing. The article puts particular emphasis on weblogs as one of the ways of communication and self-promotion. The authors (or coauthors) of the presented blogs are people with intellectual disabilities. Hence the conclusion that the common presence of the Internet should set new goals in the education of young people, including the search of optimal ways to make use of the state-of-the-art media. These tasks are also relevant in regard to people with intellectual disabilities who remain a specific group of the Internet users.