Problemy w organizacji dziennego wsparcia dla dorosłych osób z głęboką, wieloraką niepełnosprawnością po zakończeniu edukacji

Abstract

The article presents the problems that adults with profound multiple disabilities have to struggle with after finishing education. They face a barrier of the lack of places for people with considerable functional problems at Occupational Therapy Workshops and in Centres for People with Special Needs. In order to provide the better understanding of the issue, the article presents three adults with profound multiple disabilities whose families experienced the abovementioned problem. In spite of numerous adversities they managed to find a place for their sons/daughters in a daily care centre which is adjusted to working with people with severe multiple disabilities. In the further part, the article presents the functioning of the Rehabilitation and Support Centre for Adults with Profound Multiple Disabilities run by the Christian Association of Disabled People as a project institution supporting adults with severe multiple disabilities. It also presents the process of establishing the institution and a brief overview of activities in which the participants take part during their stay in the Support Centre. The final part of the article describes problems that bother the participants, their families and indirectly also the employees of the Centre and refer to the lack of permanent and stable source of financing the activity of the Support Centre.